Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Dancing on the brink of the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Marcus Aurelius
James S. A. Corey • Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse Book 6)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching:
Alas! Misery lies under happiness,
and happiness sits on misery, alas!
Who knows where it will end?
Nothing is certain.
The normal changes into the monstrous,
the fortunate into the unfortunate,
and our bewilderment goes on and on.
I’ve known clear-headed, clear-hearted people in their nineties. They didn’t think they were young. They knew, with a patient, canny clarity, how old they were.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
for example am Ursula; Miss Ursula Kroeber; Mrs. then Ms. Le Guin; Ursula K. Le Guin; this latter is “the writer,” but who were, who are, the others? She is the writer
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
Listen
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move i
To tell me my old age doesn’t exist is to tell me I don’t exist. Erase my age, you erase my life—me.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
the global, intuitional language of fantasy to describe, as accurately as they can, the way “we” live “now.”