Laughing

As the ‘I’ raises itself to laughter, it summons the forces of its self-liberation, sublimity and individuality in the world. In weeping, it can educate itself to connect with what it belongs to.

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[…] Both laughter and tears are means of educating the ‘I’ and the ‘I’-forces. In expressing itself in laughter or tears, the ‘I’ rises up, as it frees itself from or connects closely with the world. [A laughing countenance] is the spiritual expression of the fact that we are striving for liberation, that we don’t allow things unworthy of us to grasp hold of us, but that we rise, with a smile on our face, above the things we must never become enslaved to.

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