Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.