Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?

God exists to be shaped.

Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.

I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

A few people just find a corner and read a book while there’s still daylight. It’s a good, comfortable, recreational time. What a pity to spoil it with reminders of reality.

I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.