G.K. Chesterton wrote that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. It goes hand-in-hand with this quote by Huxley, "Learn to do everything lightly". https://t.co/aGHMOmpR4c
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G.K. Chesterton wrote that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. It goes hand-in-hand with this quote by Huxley, "Learn to do everything lightly". https://t.co/aGHMOmpR4c
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 morefrom Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide by Barry Magid
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
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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.
When it comfrom Learn To Do Everything Lightly by Tina Roth Eisenberg
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CHESTERTON ONCE SAID THAT, BECAUSE THEY take themselves lightly, angels can fly.
from Become What You Are: Expanded Edition by Alan W. Watts
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- 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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... See moreWriting has taught me to carry myself more lightly. I notice what patterns recur, I notice that I write things down and think I’ll believe them forever and I rarely do. Living lightly means: we have a long long life but it’s also really short and it’s okay to change our minds to live in the fullest, most vibrant way. I see that now we’re playing ou
Molly Simpson added
- To succeed in a domain that violates your intuitions, you need to be able to turn them off the way a pilot does when flying through clouds. You need to do what you know intellectually to be right, even though it feels wrong.
from Black Swan Farming by Paul Graham
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