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“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation” ~Sir. Issac Newton What exactly is High Humor? High Humor is a mix of nonattached laughter at absurdity and a radical openness to fallibilism while honoring virtue. Where courage frees character, moderation balances character, wisdom guides character, justice stabilizes character, creativity grows character, and honor unifies character, High Humor overcomes character. It’s the only virtue that is transcendent.

“Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.” ~William James Balance, equilibrium, symmetry. There are times to put up fences and build walls and reinforce comfort zones. There are times to tear down fences topple walls and stretch comfort zones until they snap. In a world with too many fences, walls, and reinforced comfort zones, we need more people who are capable of drunken expansion. We need more uprootedness and toothin

“To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever.” ~Dōgen Zenji The Self: elusive, subjective, exploitative, digressive, assumptive, regressive. And the list goes on. Because the