It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.
Interpretation
We are all connected through shared stories and experiences.
Ursula K. Le Guin's quote emphasizes the bond that connects humanity through storytelling and shared narratives. It suggests that regardless of our differences, the tales we tell and the experiences we share unite us as one family, highlighting the importance of empathy and understanding in our relationships with one another.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of community, you might use this quote to emphasize common humanity.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. βDo they expect students not to be anarchists?β he said. βWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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