Today a few extracts from Paul Brunton's 'A Hermit in the Himalayas'
"During all my wanderings in the mystic courts of Heavens, I have yet to notice any prohibitory announcement upon the walls proclaiming that laughter is prohibited."
"After all, it is better to jest and joke about this ephemeral life of ours than to imitate the undertaker. Life wihout its sprinkling of humour is like soup without salt - it lacks savor. We must laugh if life is to be made endurable. If nature has not made us a little frivolous, we would be most wretched. It is because we are frivolous that the majority do not hang themselves."
"Life is mostly tolerable if we are able to laugh at it."
"Humour is a mysterious quality which the gods have given to the fallen mankind as a soporific substitute for the divine exaltation it has lost. It provides an excellent way of liberating oneself from the dismal effects of misfortunes, from drab environments, from unpleasant realities and persons, but above all from one's personal ego. A man who can laugh at himselh has to that extent acquired some degree of impersonality."
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