Humor can be used as a tool to help us become more conscious of faults, to reveal that a relationship is deteriorating, to discover that a teacher is no longer serving us, or to realize that some culturally accepted rules of order, prudence, or education are deflecting our attention rather than focusing it on the path to awakening.
— James Fadiman, Robert Frager, Essential Sufism by James Fadiman, editor, Robert Frager, editor