How To Not Fall In The Quicksand

Hi, folks. My name is Nick the poet, and the topic of this video is light is true and heavy as false. I was staying at an airbnb, I think it was kind of towards the middle of the summer, about, and I saw this post it note about a mirror in the room, and it said, light is true and heavy is false. And this is something that I haven't forgotten since. And I think about pretty often, and it ties into one of my favorite quotes, which is to go lightly, which is a quote from Aldous Huxley, you know, don't get caught in the.

In the quicksand. It's all around us. Things can seem, you know, extremely heavy, and it's easy to get, you know, bogged down in all kinds of different thoughts and feelings and all this kind of thing. And so is what I try to do is remember that, you know, light is true and heavy is false. So can I choose a lighter thought? You know, if I'm feeling heavy, what can I do to, you know, relieve that heaviness? And oftentimes it's reaching out to someone else. But sometimes I may need to sit with that heaviness, and I may need to be with it and, you know, expand in it and, you know, grow in it, because we're all faced every day with.

With different things that come up. And the great philosopher Rumi talks about, yeah. You know, that these guests that come to us, you know, thoughts, emotions, feelings, to invite them in. And oftentimes I try to fight them. But, you know, even. Even sadness, even difficult thoughts and emotions can be there to try to help us. So we can invite them in, we can learn from them, and we can transform them into positivity, into light. And sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard. But I just wanted to share those thoughts with you today.

Hope you have a good one. Talk to you later. Bye.