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    Huxley advises living life lightly and without seriousness or pretension. He recommends letting things happen without trying too hard and coping lightly with both feelings and events. Huxley reflects on how seriously he took life as a young man and says the best advice is to approach even death lightly, without rhetoric or metaphors, just facing it as a fact while maintaining clarity of mind. He warns of quicksands that try to pull one into fear, self-pity and despair, so to avoid being sucked down, one must walk through life lightly without baggage or encumbrances.

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    Excerpt from Aldous Huxley's novel Island (1962)

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    Huxley advises living life lightly and without seriousness or pretension. He recommends letting things happen without trying too hard and coping lightly with both feelings and events. Huxley reflects on how seriously he took life as a young man and says the best advice is to approach even death lightly, without rhetoric or metaphors, just facing it as a fact while maintaining clarity of mind. He warns of quicksands that try to pull one into fear, self-pity and despair, so to avoid being sucked down, one must walk through life lightly without baggage or encumbrances.

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    Aldous Huxley - Lightly Child

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    Silvia Valkova
    Huxley advises living life lightly and without seriousness or pretension. He recommends letting things happen without trying too hard and coping lightly with both feelings and events. Huxley reflects on how seriously he took life as a young man and says the best advice is to approach even death lightly, without rhetoric or metaphors, just facing it as a fact while maintaining clarity of mind. He warns of quicksands that try to pull one into fear, self-pity and despair, so to avoid being sucked down, one must walk through life lightly without baggage or encumbrances.

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    Aldous Huxley

    Its dark because you are trying too hard.


    Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
    Yes, feel lightly even though youre 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 its 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.
    Thats why you must walk so lightly.
    Lightly my darling,
    on tiptoes and no luggage,
    not even a sponge bag,
    completely unencumbered.

    Aldous Huxley, Island

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