It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
To be whole is to be part;_x000D_ true voyage is return.
Interpretation
Being complete involves embracing connections with others, and true journeys often lead us back to ourselves.
Ursula K. Le Guin's quote reflects on the interconnectedness of existence, suggesting that to feel complete (or 'whole'), one must recognize the importance of being part of a larger community. Moreover, the idea that 'true voyage is return' emphasizes the notion that meaningful experiences often lead us back to deeper self-understanding and appreciation of where we come from.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of community, one might say this quote to illustrate the interconnectedness of human experience.
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
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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