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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 themI 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
Learn to do everything lightly
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with themI 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
- Aldous Huxley, 1962
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) là một nhà văn người Anh, nổi tiếng nhất có lẽ với cuốn tiểu thuyết Brave New World (1932). Ông được Hội Văn học Hoàng gia Anh (RSL) trao tặng danh hiệu cao quý Companion of Literature.
Ngoài văn chương, Aldous Huxley còn quan tâm đến trải nghiệm tâm linh và nghiên cứu các lĩnh vực như cận tâm lý học (parapsychology), thuyết phổ biến (universalism), và bộ môn huyền học (mysticism).
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