Molehills can be turned into mountains. Your whole life is a kind of drug trip. When you are under the impact of a drug, things happen faster. When you are living the usual ordinary life, things take a little longer. But it is the same trip.
Scientists say that fifty thousand thoughts pass through the average person in a day.
It is almost as if you have a radio with all stations available. You can also choose to turn off the radio, and all the noise disappears. In meditation that is what happens, a meditator simply disconnects the radio. Yet people become addicted to stations. Slowly, a person becomes fixed on a particular station.