Learn To Do Everything Lightly

The alternative is to enjoy life instead of clinging to it or pushing it away. If you can live like that, each moment will change you. If you are willing to experience the gift of life instead of fighting with it, you will be moved to the depth of your being. When you reach this state, you will begin to see the secrets of the heart. The heart is th

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

“Is this what I feel like doing? Is this the lightest and most joyful activity for me, or am I making myself do it because I think I have to?” Trust that your feelings of joy, delight, and self-love are always leading you toward your higher good.

Unchecked levity leaves you flighty, ungrounded, and unreal. Unchecked gravity leaves you collapsed in a heap of misery,” she writes. “Yet when properly combined, these two opposing forces leave you buoyant.”15

light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.

Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness.