Raúl Juliá

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Thank God for the theater.

 Raúl Juliá

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/raul-julia-worlds-stage-documentary/12522/