Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes … we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.