There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.