I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.
How innocent we’d been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.
Endure your challenges.
Around me celestial flowers are falling in a crystal shower. Or are they the tears of the gods who crowd the skies, looking down in sorrow and admiration at my final act of self-respect?
Til which fried in its own oil restores lustre when one has lost interest in life. I will be Tilottama, the essence of til, life-giver, restorer of health and hope.
Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy. If a person...
What is it in us that carves negative impressions so deeply into our brains?
Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.
This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brus...
They say in the old tales that when a man and a woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they c...
The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.
Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dr...
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!
Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.
Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.
When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How
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There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!