If you ever happen to meet God, do you know what you will come to know? “Oh, I have met you inside.” God will dance in our lives when our day dawns in laughter and love. The true prayer in the morning is when you start it with a belly full of laughter. Don’t just be laughing outside but from deep inside. The laughter comes from the centre of our Being, from the core of our heart. True laughter is true prayer. When you laugh, the whole of nature laughs with you. It echoes and resounds, and that is really the worth of life. When things go all right, everybody can laugh, but when everything falls apart, and then if you can laugh, that is evolution and growth. So there is nothing in life that is more worthy than your laughter. Never lose it for anything, whatsoever.
Events come and go. Some are a little pleasant, some are unpleasant, but whatever happens, they all leave you untouched. There is a place deep in you that is left untouched. Hold on to that which is untouched. Then you will be able to keep laughing.
There are differences in how and when we laugh. Sometimes you laugh just to avoid thinking or to avoid looking at yourself. But when you see and feel within yourself that life is so present every moment, so intense every moment, and it is invincible every moment, then nothing can bother you. Nothing can touch you. Then the laughter is authentic. It is real laughter. You might have observed babies six months old or one year old. When they laugh, their whole body is jumping and bouncing. The laughter is not just coming out of their mouths. Every cell in the body is laughing. That is enlightenment. That laughter is innocent, pure, without inhibitions, and without any strain.
Laughter opens up the heart. And anytime we don’t feel up to that innocence, what do we do? You question. “I don’t feel that innocent or free. What do I do?” You can attend to several layers of your own existence. First, the body. See if you have had a good rest, proper food and some exercise. Then attend to the breath. Breath has its own rhythm. Every mood of the mind has a definite rhythm in the breath. By attending to the rhythm in the breath, the mind and body can be elevated. Then look at the concepts and opinions that hover on the mind. Good, bad, right, wrong, should do, shouldn’t do, all these could bind you. Every thought is associated with some sensation, some feeling. Observe the sensation and feeling in the body. Observe the rhythm in the emotions. If we observe, we never make new mistakes. You have the same pattern of emotions, but you hang it on different causes, different things, people, circumstances, and situations. Attend to this rhythm of the emotions. Observing thoughts as thoughts and emotions as emotions opens us to our true Self, the godliness within us. The very observation changes it. When you observe, all that is negative falls away. And the nature of positive emotions is they grow. If you observe, when you are angry, the anger will fall away; and if there is love, love grows.
