Your job is not to wake anyone up. Your job is simply to be awake yourself. And in being awake, in living from that place of presence and peace, you offer a possibility. You show that another way is available. What others do with that possibility is up to them. And (...), you keep your sense of humour about the whole thing. 'Cause really, isn't it rather funny? The great cosmic joke of it all. Here we are, consciousness pretending to be separate individuals. Egos fighting with other egos. All of us forgetting we're in the same thing looking at itself through different eyes. When you see this, when you really get the joke, you can't help but laugh. Not at others, but with them. Because we're all in this ridiculous play together. You see, the irritation people feel is not a problem to be solved. It's part of the process. (...)