People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.
Problems exist only in the human mind.
The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
Problems only exist in the human mind.