Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.