/lit/ - Literature

When Herman Melville was writing Moby Dick, he wasn’t writing about a man looking for a whale. He was writing about a man trying to find his higher Self. He said these words:

>for as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all of the horrors of the half-lived life

In every moment of your life as you leave here today you have this choice, you can either be a host to God or a hostage to your ego.