“It’s dark because you're 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.”
- Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley’s quote from his final novel, Island, offers a timeless reminder that trying too hard can sometimes make it harder to find clarity and peace. He suggests that much of the emotional darkness we experience comes from holding on too tightly to outcomes and trying to control what cannot be controlled.
Huxley’s call for lightness is not about suppressing emotions or living superficially. Instead, it is about allowing ourselves to feel deeply without becoming consumed by those feelings. By letting life unfold rather than constantly fighting against it, we can face its inevitable challenges with greater grace, perspective, and inner calm.
Krishnamurti on Solitude
“It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.”
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“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.”
― Carl Sagan
Oppression erodes the humanity of the oppressor too; growth, wealth, pride all come later. If a country is not founded on equality, everything it achieves & claims will be crooked. Dignity of labor/love/faith/citizenship first, all achievements before that are theft.-@Punit_Pania