Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work the highest level of existence is play.