Kundalini Gateway Email List Archives

line

To: K-list
Recieved: 2000/08/31 08:11
Subject: Re: [K-list] Ram Dass has a new book
From: percyval

On 2000/08/31 08:11, percyval posted thus to the K-list:

/7872/6/_/680797/_/967734638/
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->

> From: <scspiritATnospamwebtv.net> (dee)
> Someone on the list mentioned Ram Dass; he has a new book out that I
> have been enjoying reading. It is titled Still Here: Embracing Aging,
> Changing and Dying. (snip)
> between his words to them. Was wondering if anyone else on this list has
> read the book and has any feedback on it.

hello dee,

i'm glad that you brought this up, as i am immensely loving this book... it
is extremely relevant to my situation and the growth that i have been going
through in response to it... although i'm am 46 years old, my life is more
like that of a much older man because i have been chronically ill for the
past 15 years, and homebound for much of that time...

this quote from his preface (below) was especially wonderful to me, since
i'm now at a stage of surrender and acceptance instead of struggling and
searching for a cure... although i do believe that working hard to be healed
can be very important for a sick person... but after doing that for about
ten years, i am now working on surrender and acceptance with serenity...
here is the quote:

"Although my outward life has been radically altered, I don't see myself as
a stroke victim. I see myself as a Soul who's watching 'him' experience the
aftermath of this cerebral hemmorrhage. Having accepted my predicament, I'm
much happier than I was before. This troubles some of the people around me.
They have told me that I should fight to walk again, but I don't know if I
wanted to walk. I'm sitting-that's where I am. I'm peaceful like this and I
am grateful to the people who care for me. Why is this wrong? Though I can
now stand and move around with a walker, I've grown to love my wheelchair (I
call it my swan boat) and being wheeled about by people who care. They carry
Chinese emperors and Indian maharajas on palan- quins; in other cultures,
it's a symbol of honor and power to be carried and wheeled. I don't believe
it's all-important to be what our culture calls 'optimal.' "
   -Ram Dass from "Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying" (p. 6)

warmly,

percyval


http://www.kundalini-gateway.org

blank
DISCLAIMER!
Home | Archive Index | Search the archives | Subscribe
blank
K.  List FAQ | Kundalini FAQs | Signs and  Symptoms | Awakening Experiences | K. list Polls | Member Essays | Meditations | List Topics | Art Gallery | Cybrary | Sitemap | Email the moderators.
 line
  • Feel free to submit any questions you might have about what you read here to the Kundalini mailing list moderators, and/or the author (if given). Specify if you would like your message forwarded to the list. Please subscribe to the K-list so you can read the responses.
  • All email addresses on this site have been spam proofed by the addition of ATnospam in place of the at symbol symbol.
  • All posts publicly archived with the permission of the people involved. Reproduction for anything other than personal use is prohibited by international copyright law. ©
  • This precious archive of experiential wisdom is made available thanks to sponsorship from Fire-Serpent.org.
  • URL: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/klist/k2000b/k20a04219.html