Hillary

“Here, however, the comic element is very faint. It is too far from its source.

If you wish to strengthen it, you must go back to the source itself and contrast the derived image—that of a masquerade—with the original one, which, be it remembered, was that of a mechanical tampering with life.”
― Henri Bergson, Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

“It's good to be aware of all the (buddha) family patterns and to remember that our energy is just energy, and that every form of energy has the potential to be transformed into wisdom.

One of the most wonderful things about Vajrayana is that the stronger our afflictions are, the stronger the encumbered patterns, the stronger the wisdom will be.

So it's actually considered to be really good for a Vajrayana practitioner to be very passionate or very angry or very lazy, or whatever the dominant obstructing emotion might be, because an equal intensity of that energy will be transformed into wisdom.”
― Lama Tsultrim Allione, Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine

“So there is a logic of the imagination which is not the logic of reason, one which at times is even opposed to the latter, with which, however, philosophy must reckon, not only in the study of the comic, but in every other investigation of the same kind.

It is something like the logic of dreams, though of dreams that have not been left to the whim of individual fancy, being the dreams dreamt by the whole of society.

In order to reconstruct this hidden logic, a special kind of effort is needed, by which the outer crust of carefully stratified judgments and firmly established ideas will be lifted, and we shall behold in the depths of our mind, like a sheet of subterranean water, the flow of an unbroken stream of images which pass from one into another.”
― Henri Bergson

“...we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a definition. We shall regard it, above all, as a living thing.”
― Henri Bergson, Laughter : An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic