[In this quote, Ram Dass is speaking about serving as a caregiver for his elderly father]
"When you are doing a repetitive task like this all the time, you see these different models in your head come and go. These different feelings about what it is you are doing come and go and change. After a while, you develop that perfectly even equanimous nature. The part of you where the models are still there, but you are not in the model. So you are noticing these different things, but noticing them from a place of evenness.
You have gone from being somebody who is doing all this stuff, ‘I am helping dad,’ to ‘helping dad is happening and here we are.’ As I get out of my role, there we are together. It begins to be a space of such presence for the two of us. You understand how that becomes yoga in the sense that you are constantly cultivating that part of you that is in the world, but not of the world."
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