On doing and being

[vaneramos]

From The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin:

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

Incidentally I am being weary and dull today, but not nearly half as sluggish as LJ.