This is an excerpt from an article called Fierce Grace, from the Autumn 2003 issue of the magazine Light of Consciousness: Ram Dass pointed to himself with his left hand -- he is paralyzed on his right side -- and said, "You know, this is not who I expected to be, because my vision of myself 'old' didn't have a stroke in it. If I think about who I was supposed to be, or if I think about who I used to be, it brings up suffering for me. But if I just rest in awareness, I'm in bliss. For instance, I can't drive my car anymore. I can't shift it. Every time I get in the car to go somewhere I get in the passenger side and my attendant drives the car. In that car ride I can either be an ex-driver, somebody that I used to be, which is just going to bring up suffering for me on the trip, or I can say to myself, 'Far out! I'm being chauffeured!' One brings up suffering and the other brings up joy! It's just a projection of my mind on the same phenomenon, a trip to the post office in the car."
"Oh my tiki torch is hot." - I heard a woman say this in a sultry voice on the radio last night... ... and i laughed for the next 30 seconds.