Aldous Huxley https://t.co/e5m5xY3rV4
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
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RILKE WROTE: “So you must not be frightened…if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness like light and cloud shadows passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think…that life has not forgotten you.”
Sharon Salzberg • Faith
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
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But … the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes a man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take ... See more
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