The bull's cousin, yeah - he's a cebu

We do not live more fully merely by doing more, seeing more, tasting more, and experiencing more than we ever have before. On the contrary, some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual.

A tourist may go through a museum with a Baedeker, looking conscientiously at everything important, and come out less alive than when he went in. He has looked at everything and seen nothing. He has done a great deal and it has only made him tired. If he had stopped for a moment to look at one picture he really liked and forgotten about all the others, he might console himself with the thought that he had not completely wasted his time. He would have discovered something not only outside himself but in himself. He would have become aware of a new level of being in himself and his life would have been increased by a new capacity for being and for doing.

—Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island (via peteditor)

(Source: full-and-by)

doyouaioli:

As an Arts student, reading is an inescapable part of my life. Today, I began my day by doing some light reading: a Marxist Prolegomenon on Japanese Gangsterism. In the afternoon, I read an anthropological journal article about cultural relativism in relation to historical particularism (with far…