A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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Ursula K. LeGuin
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It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.
When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
To oppose something is to maintain it.