“There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challengin…” — John Burdett

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.