Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialCompare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOne voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWould you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialMy soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe machine conceals the machinations.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLove doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBut need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
@cherileigh9.bsky.social📖 Ursula K. Le Guin - first woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula for the same book (Left Hand of Darkness, 1969). Also gave us Earthsea, one of the first major fantasies with a protagonist of color.
Which of her books would you recommend?
#AuthorFacts #UrsulaKLeGuin #FantasyBooks
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBelief is the wound that knowledge heals.