The Buddha generally presented himself as more physician than metaphysician: if an arrow is sticking out of your side, he famously said, don’t argue about where it came from or who made it; just pull it out.
— The Doctor is Within by Pico Iyer in the NY Times Happy Days blog. The blog is about “the search for contentment in its many forms”, and I can’t help but think of Hawaii when reading Eric Weiner’s commentary on the Danes in Lowered Expectations.