lightly

jana williams photography

lightly child, lightly. learn to do everything lightly. yes, feel lightly even though you are feeling deeply. just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. i was so preposterously serious in those days... lightly, lightly - it's the best advice ever given to me. 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.

- aldous huxley

be whole

photo by jana williams

‎be whole. whatsoever you do, do it totally. what is the difference? when you do it totally you are not worried about the result. you did it totally. you are finished. more you could not do. you are not holding anything; you have put all your energy in it, you were whole in it. now if you fail, you fail. if you succeed, you succeed. but whether you fail or you succeed, you are fulfilled all the same. a deep contentment arises because you have done whatsoever you could do. 

-osho