Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.