04/08/2022
“The cleverest of all, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.” ~Dostoevsky
Only a good sense of humor can see through the cracks in the armor of your hubris. Only humor can deflate the ego without destroying it. Because only humor can get power over power.
The key is to remain self-empowered but not so empowered that you become egocentric and overly serious. Tricky indeed. And only a good sense of humor is trickster enough to pull off the trick. Only a good sense of humor can help you get out of your own way so that you can see “the way” is not clinging to any “way.”
Practice humor over hubris. Keep the will to humor ahead of the will to power. Laugh at yourself and the cosmic joke. Hang a question mark on the things you’ve been taking for granted. Set a tripwire for your certainty. Dangle a noose over your dogmatism. Plant a minefield in your mind field. Dance through all the seriousness with insouciant lightheartedness. Do this, again and again, and the secrets of the universe will not elude you.
Written by Gary Z McGee
Image: In Your Element by Stuz0r
