"Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known……" — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
"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."
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45 Quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Often, others see you, as you see yourself
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Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
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I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware…
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Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
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I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
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Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its…
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Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into…
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Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack…
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Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.
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Each day has a color, a smell.
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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . .…
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Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
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