If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.

If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind.