Maybe spoiler alert I guess (Island, Aldous Huxley)

Really, from all books that I read, all TV shows that I watched.. this is the only passage that really stuck with me in terms of memorizing small parts of it.

Sometimes, when I see myself taking things too seriously, I start to ramble with myself parts of it.

Context: Lakshmi is an old woman and she is dying. And Susila is a younger lady.

Here it goes:

“It’s dark because you’re trying too hard,”
Said Susila. “Dark because you want it to be light.
Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl.
‘Lightly, child, lightly. You’ve got to learn to do everything lightly.
Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly.
Yes, feel lightly, even though you’re 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—it was the best advice ever given me.
Well, now I’m going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi…

Lightly, my darling, lightly.
Even when it comes to dying.
Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe 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 all 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.”

Island, Aldous Huxley