Lightly Child, Lightly.

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So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

—  Rainbow Rowell, Attachments (Published April 14th 2011 by Dutton)

Notes:

  • Photo: DK: Woodland Park, Darien, CT Oct 28, 2020.
  • Quote Source: Extraordinary Routines.
  • 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.”

32 thoughts on “Lightly Child, Lightly.”

  4. And what if this good thing (encountering something held firmly between heaven and earth by the finest strand) for you to hold lightly and add to your pile, was not accidental but, rather, Providential from the beginning of man’s time?

          1. Laughing…

            “There will be no comets now,
            no pointing star to lead you where you know you must go.
            Look for smaller signs instead, the fine
            disturbances of ordered things when suddenly
            the rhythms of your expectation break
            and in a moment’s pause another world
            reveals itself behind the ordinary.
            And one small detail out of place will be
            enough to let you know: a missing ring,
            a breath, a footfall or a sudden breeze,
            a crack of light beneath a darkened door.”

            ~ Dana Gioia

            Or like someone said earlier,
            ” …something held firmly between heaven and earth by the finest strand, for you to hold Lightly!”

  6. And what if… the art of piling on good things is possible through mastering the art of letting go of the things not needed in the pile?

    Hmmm…. It’s that discernment thingie that stimies me some days! 🙂

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