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. 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 comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.
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You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w... ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h... ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star... ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ... ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy... ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on... 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Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing. ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla... ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva... ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v... ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ... ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea... ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.... ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. ALDOUS HUXLEY