Living Life With Lightness,

Gathered here are ten hand-picked and carefully curated recommendations that might spark your curiosity this month:

I.

Aldous Huxley on approaching life with lightness, even in the face of difficulty:

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything 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’s the best advice ever given 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.”

Source: ​Island

II.

(Not so) Fun fact: Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen—after his death, the pathologist who performed the autopsy took it without permission for research.