I added that it was no fun to grow old$$$ but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments$$$ and they wander off through equation after equation$$$ and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly$$$ but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
If I had enough money$$$ I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table.
It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us$$$ so that we may learn to know ourselves.
I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.
God save us from gloomy saints!
Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.
From the scientific view$$$ the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance.
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business$$$ it is a question of human survival.