It\u2019s dark because you are trying too hard.
\nLightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
\nYes, feel lightly even though you\u2019re feeling deeply.
\nJust lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
\nI was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
\nLightly, lightly \u2013 it\u2019s the best advice ever given me.
\nWhen it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
\nNo rhetoric, no tremolos,
\nno self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
\nAnd of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
\nJust the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
\nSo throw away your baggage and go forward.
\nThere are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
\ntrying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
\nThat\u2019s why you must walk so lightly.
\nLightly my darling,
\non tiptoes and no luggage,
\nnot even a sponge bag,
\ncompletely unencumbered.
\n\u2014 Aldous Huxley, Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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