When you learn to see the hidden unity between all opposites, you can see that horror and humor are very close to each other.
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You can look at a skull and have it symbolize the frightening reality of your mortality, the finitude of your lifespan, the ultimate meaninglessness of everything you hold dear; the reminder of the inevitability of your dissolution into a mystery of eternal absence of light.
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You can also look at a skull and realize it’s laughing—laughing warm-heartedly at the idiocy of looking at reality in the way described before; laughing at the cosmic joke that is life, at “the good King’s jest.”
Which one do you see?
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