Everything wants to float.
And yet we move about like weights,
attaching ourselves to everything, in thrall to gravity…
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “14,” Sonnets to Orpheus.
Notes:
- Photograph: Lori Vrba with ‘The Caretaker’s Balloon’ (via Newthom)
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “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.”
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floating sounds …. lovely 🙂
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So true..yet why don’t we float more?
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Now THAT is the question…
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Ohmagosh, but this resonates at the moment (she says as she drags her ball and chain along…)
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Laughing. Mine is permanently attached…and I pull and I pull and I pull…
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I’m not typically wed to mine, but this has been a long stretch. It’s a new day, though, so we’re gonna work mightily to cast that weight aside…
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Ok Coach. I’m drafting behind you.
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float
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…gently…lightly…
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The weights, though heavy, feel safe and secure. And perhaps the uncertainty and the infinite vastness of floating, keep us trapped in our comfort zone. Either way, I’m going up….🎈🎈🎈🎈the view is so much better from up here Ha ✈️✈️
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You were/are already “up.” Way up above the rest of us.
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I’m a great lover of Rilke but haven’t come across this wonderful quote… the pic just makes this wish so well visible and I wd like to include that WE too would often wish to float a bit more and not be so downtrodden by the weight of our earthly load (misery/pain/probs/etc) IF only the gravity wasn’t so overwhelmingly strong 🙂
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
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The older I get the more I am able to float. ☺☺
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Well now that’s something to look forward too!
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I’m floating. But feet on the ground. Takes a lot to weigh me down.
🙂
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I can see that. I can.
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I take what I said back. I’m weighed down under now. Jinxed myself. Flu and all day meeting talking about numbers. I HATE numbers. We’re up but I hate taking about it 😦
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Oh No!
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“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.”
― Mary Oliver, House of Light
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Ah, so love this. Thank you for sharing…wonderful.
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Just let go.
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Yes…and float…up, up, up, up…
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I’ve often said we are like those old boxes with filings in them where with a little pen you could make funny faces and such. The human dance.
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Smiling. Yes. Well put.
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a reminder to meditate, to go beyond form…to be weight-less. always a relief!
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If only I could!
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ah, I have always felt in the fight or flight dialogue “float” is the unspoken option that I favor.
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I like that, very much….
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