Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.