About - Like a Bird

Be a spirit, rather than a dumpy, heavy, physical ego. Take life in a light-hearted way—

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.

Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.

Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.

Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.

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Like a butterfly pinned to a table, however, happiness dies unless it is held lightly.

a wanderer who finds a feather on a woodland pathway sees not only the bird it once clothed but the forest that sustained the bird, the clouds, the rain, the sun, the seeding darkness. She sees the stars. She sees that her life and that of the feather-bird are indissolubly connected.