Lightness, jesting, and joking,
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. Ellen G. White
Lightness
We now demand the
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused – in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery – by which term we may designate the character … Read more
To offer no resistance
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer … Read more
Ask yourself: Is there
Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i’m doing? If there isn’t then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle. Eckhart Tolle
To offer no resistance
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. Eckhart Tolle
[Heraclitus\’ language] dispenses with
[Heraclitus’ language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgetting: that is a
Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light–I call it a divine capacity for lightness. Friedrich Nietzsche
You have to be
You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That’s a jerk. Frederick Lenz
The critical thing about
The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, … Read more
Lightness of movement is
Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer. Frank Thiess