If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.