“Westerners mistakenly think that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you and you have only bliss to look forward to, but that would not be nirvana because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the [woe] from the past. Nirvana is what you arrive at when you have only bliss to look forward to and find in what looked like sorrows, the seedlings of your joy.” – Andrew Solomon
