To be is to see

I want to see the world with an eye that analyzes from a place of introspection and regards the grotesque and the monstrous as yet another aspect of self--am I not a part of this? I am not above it. I must refrain from judging it as less than I. I will not succumb to nihilism without a fight to retain my humanity--including that which I revile or find disgusting.

“Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
~ E.E. Cummings