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Be a spirit, rather than a dumpy, heavy, physical ego. Take life in a light-hearted way—
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
3-2-1: On living with lightness, the root cause of sin, and how to compete without losing yourself
There’s an old saying: “Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” Even though the word spiritual comes from the word for breath, which is nothing but air, too many people seem to make spiritual practice out to be something heavy and portentous, rather than something light. How do we manage to get so mixed up about what to take seriously
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
life is heavy enough without you adding your own self-seriousness to it, you've got to learn to take yourself lightly, life falls into place after that
Dylano on Substack
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