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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
... See moreMichael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Aldous Huxley on approaching life with lightness, even in the face of difficulty:
"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 hu... See more
"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 hu... See more
3-2-1: On living with lightness, the root cause of sin, and how to compete without losing yourself
You can keep the rest—what’s the use of it? Tell me, what’s the use of moving around in an airplane with a heart that is full of misery and emptiness? Tell me. I’d rather live on the ground in a jungle and be blissfully happy and dancing all day. Wouldn’t you? Maybe you wouldn’t. I don’t know.
Anthony De Mello • Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality
Lighten up. Give yourself and others room to move, to talk, to be who they are—to be human. Give life a chance to happen. Give yourself an opportunity to enjoy it.
Melody Beattie • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Revised and Updated)
The late British Zen master Hōun Jiyu-Kennett, born Peggy Kennett, had a vivid way of capturing the sense of inner release that can come from grasping just how intractable our human limitations really are. Her teaching style, she liked to say, was not to lighten the burden of the student but to make it so heavy that he or she would put it down. Met... See more
It’s Worse than You Think
The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
Alice Munro, Dear Life
“Before having that personal load to carry, I was somewhat complacent. I lacked the urgency. I didn’t have the traction to move forward,” he writes. “A life of ease is not the pathway to growth and happiness. On the contrary, a life of ease is how you get stuck and confused in life.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
