Humor
Humour
To me, humour is the most sacred experience in life. And it can be proven: no animal except man has a sense of humour. Can you expect a buffalo to laugh? Can you expect a donkey to have a sense of humour? The moment your saints become serious, they fall into the category of buffaloes and donkeys: they are no longer human, because humour is the only special quality that human conciousness has. This shows that only at certain point of evolution does humour manifest itself.
And the higher you go, the more playful will be your approach to life and its problems. They will no longer be burdens, it will be a joy to solve them. Life will not be a sin - it is serious people who have made life a sin - life will be a reward, a gift. Those who are wasting life in seriousness are being ungrateful to existence.
Learn to laugh with the flowers and the stars and you will feel a strange weightlessness coming into your being, as if you have grown wings and can fly.
-Osho, "The ABC of Enlightenment"