There's a story about Ramirez.
He is old and living in his castle on a hill. He is looking out the window (he's in bed and paralyzed) and he sees his enemy. Old as he is, leaning on a cane, his enemy is climbing up the hill- slowly, painfully. It takes him about two and a half hours to get up the hill. There is nothing Ramirez can do because the servants have the day off.
So his enemy opens the door, comes straight to his bedroom, puts his hand inside his cloak, and pulls out a gun. He says "At last Ramirez, we're going to settle the scores!"
Ramirez tries his level best to talk him out of it. He says, "Come on Borgia, you can't do that. You know I am no longer the man who ill-treated you as that youngster years ago, and you're no longer that youngster. Come off it!"
"Oh no" says his enemy. "Your sweet words aren't going to deter me from this divine mission of mine. It's revenge I want and there's nothing you can do about it."
And Ramirez says "But there is!"
"What?" asks his enemy.
"I can wake up!" says Ramirez.
Anthony de Mello
