Really feeling this quote today...

The hell of being a practitioner is the state in which we begin to see through our neuroses, and yet we continue to afflict ourselves with them.

It can only stop through clarity and, to have clarity develop, we need humour. We have to accept that we are both the dyed-in-the-wool neurotic and the practitioner who is trying to let neuroses go. That is comical and we have to be fairly light-hearted about it. With sufficient humour, we can simply be the space that lets these two lunatics dance.

from "Emailing the Lamas from Afar," Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen