our creator's mind is a terrible thing to waste

pondering 'transfiguration' in prep for Sunday's lectionary readings while musing both about something I heard yesterday attributed to Groucho Marx ("While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery") and a quote at the end of this TED talk from Paradise Lost by John Milton ("The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...")

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure.html