Living One Inch Above the Ground

In living lightly, in embracing what the Polish philosopher Henryk Solimowski, in his book Living Philosophy, calls an 'elegant frugality', there is the ineffable feeling of floating just above the ground. To be sure, this 'floating' is not nearly high enough to have one's head in the clouds, nor close enough to the ground to be firmly rooted in it, but it does appear to be what the Japanese poet Saigyō Hōshi called 'living one inch above the earth'. This levity (as the transcending of gravity) also concurs with John the Evangelist's notion of being in the world and not of it, and of the Buddhist idea of renouncing the world but not abandoning it. 

Metaphysical - ?
             - the physical absolute
the opaque burned out 
               the heaviness dissolved

[Kenneth White, excerpt The Region of Identity]