2 Paths to the Same Place

We that have enjoyed these two are privileged indeed...

"They bore a striking physical resemblance to one another.  The facial features were limpid, facile and smoothly devoid of the crags, crevasses and craters inscribed on the faces of beatific people who lived on a constant cocktail of stress, motion, travel, deadlines and psychological combat."

"Hunter S. Thompson and the Dalai Lama were nearly portrait perfect facsimiles of one another.  In parallel lives, both men dedicated themselves to the spiritual uplift and the political liberation of poor and downtrodden peoples.  The Dalai Lama is the world's most gracious embodiment of compassion, serenity and beatitude.  Hunter S. Thompson was the world's most outrageously outspoken champion for the rights of the under-classes."

- Michael Carmichael