{"quotes":[{"text":"I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["bones","grief","lightness"],"id":303,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than diminishes intellectual vigor and spiritual fulfillment, the notion that in the eyes of the gods the tight-lipped hero and the wet-cheeked victim are frequently inferior to the red-nosed clown, such notions are destined to be a hard sell to those who have E.M. Forster on their bedside table and a clump of dried narcissus up their ass.Not to worry. As long as words and ideas exist, there will be a few misfits who will cavort with them in a spirit of *approfondement*–if I may borrow that marvelous French word that translates roughly as ‘playing easily in the deep’–and in so doing they will occasionally bring to realization Kafka’s belief that ‘a novel should be an ax for the frozen seas around us’.","author":"Tom Robbins","tags":["approfondement","fun","humor","lightness","play","playfulness"],"id":66980,"author_id":"Tom+Robbins"},{"text":"Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present.","author":"Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi","tags":["exist","existance","freedom","light","lightness","love","one","oneness","presence","present","the-other","three","truth","words-of-revelation","words-of-wisdom","words-to-live-by"],"id":84557,"author_id":"Alexia+Pentele%CF%8Cn+de+aRcturi"},{"text":"Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace. ","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["aura","bright","dao","embrace","energy","faith","grace","hopes","light","lightness","love","physical-health","physical-therapy","power","power-of-love","presence","rays","rays-of-light","saint","spiritual","spiritual-life","spirituality","strenght","sun","tao"],"id":103853,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as 'ballon', a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.","author":"Karen Blixen","tags":["beauty","lightness","movement"],"id":118840,"author_id":"Karen+Blixen"},{"text":"There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what he's doing. Sometimes Cain thinks he possesses a soul without shadows. That's what people want to be close to. But if so, it's not like a child's, for a child's soul is delicate, its flickering flame needs no more than the opening of a door onto the world to blow it out. Nothing can destroy Abel's light. In his presence one never feels wicked, only foolish. That darkness which in solitude can seem so powerful, occasionally even intoxicating, seems risible in his company.","author":"Karl Ove Knausgård","tags":["darkness","lightness","solitude"],"id":139663,"author_id":"Karl+Ove+Knausg%C3%A5rd"},{"text":"Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.","author":"Shannon Mullen","tags":["bipolar-disorder","bipolar","lightness","mania","mental-illness"],"id":168249,"author_id":"Shannon+Mullen"},{"text":"I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it’s supposed to be light all of the time.","author":"Shannon Mullen","tags":["lightness","relationships","social-media"],"id":199111,"author_id":"Shannon+Mullen"},{"text":"The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["always","dark","dark-fantasy","darkness","detect","identify","identify-with","identifying","identifying-feelings","light","lightness","mind","mind-control","mind-power","within","within-you"],"id":240677,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.","author":"Bernie Glassman","tags":["buddhism","humor","lightness","seriousness","zen"],"id":267923,"author_id":"Bernie+Glassman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}