Meandering in dreams . . .

Today is the birthday of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), writer of science fiction and fantasy.

"You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow." - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness." - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

"When things don't change any longer, that's the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is-and the more life... Life itself is a huge gamble against the odds, against all odds! You can't try to live safely, there's no such thing as safety. Stick your neck out of your shell, then, and live fully! It's not how you get there, but where you get to that counts. What you're afraid to accept, here, is that we're engaged in a really great experiment, you and I. We're on the brink of discovering and controlling, for the good of all mankind, a whole new force, an entire new field of antientropic energy, of the life-force, of the will to act, to do, to change!" - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

"When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life." - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

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