ourmarilynmonroe:

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Photographed by Bob Beerman, 1953
This image has major contrasts to what the average person would see as Marilyn Monroe. She looks so incredible in this picture with her sexy little glance, her tiny, high waisted shorts.. But in front of a library that even I probably would never read. Marilyn’s willingness to learn and her love of culture is what I adore about her. That she never settled for the dumb blonde.. It would’ve been too easy for her. But instead she carries on looking beautiful but also with a beautiful brain.

ourmarilynmonroe:

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Photographed by Bob Beerman, 1953

This image has major contrasts to what the average person would see as Marilyn Monroe. She looks so incredible in this picture with her sexy little glance, her tiny, high waisted shorts.. But in front of a library that even I probably would never read. Marilyn’s willingness to learn and her love of culture is what I adore about her. That she never settled for the dumb blonde.. It would’ve been too easy for her. But instead she carries on looking beautiful but also with a beautiful brain.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.