Walk Easy on the Earth

Walk easy on the earth:
Each life has its own fragile rhythm,
To be aware is to understand,
To ignore is to abandon oneself to sadness.
It is to search vainly for the wholeness
that only comes in surrender to what is.

Walk easy on the earth:
Too much seriousness obscures beauty,
Intensity blinds and distorts one’s focus,
Excessive ambition destroys true perception.
It is not hard work or suffering that debilitates,
But a loss of contact with oneself.

Walk easy on the earth:
Anger clouds vision and rages shortens life,
Laughter is the greatest gift of the free spirit.
To laugh profoundly and often is to understand,
To laugh at oneself and all of life,
and thus to see clearly.

Walk easy on the earth:
Love is waiting to reveal itself when it is time,
Nor can one create it despite the most noble intent.
Love is the discovery of one’s own rhythm in another
Any other love, regardless of time or commitment,
will only be doomed and painful.

This, above all: Walk easy on the earth!

Author Unknown