Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms.

Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?