The Daily Q'uote for September 9, 2018
"There is a wonderful companion that you have that enables you to find a higher perspective and that is your sense of humor. It is not that we discourage serious thinking. All things are useful in moderation. But the heaviness and the seriousness of spiritual thoughts need to be tempered with the yeast of laughter. There are always humorous aspects to the darkest picture. If you doubt that, set yourself to describing your situation as if it was a cartoon and your job was to find a caption. Make yourself laugh. Enjoy your own company and seek out laughter when you are beyond yourself. Watch a comedy. Share a joke with a friend or tell it to yourself. Then take that step back from utter immersion in what you are thinking. That gives you that lifesaving distance, that penchant for joy."
http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._1113.aspx
""the heaviness and the seriousness of spiritual thoughts need to be tempered with the yeast of laughter", use of the word need to connect this sentence together is important as i know in my case i probably will go insane if could not laugh at the absurdity of this illusion To "take that step back from utter immersion in what you are thinking", as often that is all it takes to realise how silly that thinking can be Which in my case can be much more often than not!
"There is a wonderful companion that you have that enables you to find a higher perspective and that is your sense of humor. It is not that we discourage serious thinking. All things are useful in moderation. But the heaviness and the seriousness of spiritual thoughts need to be tempered with the yeast of laughter. There are always humorous aspects to the darkest picture. If you doubt that, set yourself to describing your situation as if it was a cartoon and your job was to find a caption. Make yourself laugh. Enjoy your own company and seek out laughter when you are beyond yourself. Watch a comedy. Share a joke with a friend or tell it to yourself. Then take that step back from utter immersion in what you are thinking. That gives you that lifesaving distance, that penchant for joy."
http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._1113.aspx
""the heaviness and the seriousness of spiritual thoughts need to be tempered with the yeast of laughter", use of the word need to connect this sentence together is important as i know in my case i probably will go insane if could not laugh at the absurdity of this illusion To "take that step back from utter immersion in what you are thinking", as often that is all it takes to realise how silly that thinking can be Which in my case can be much more often than not!