Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.
I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
Jesus never pussyfooted
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.