No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

by Ursula K. Le Guin

For the seeker, the answer is less important than what the seeker does with the answer.

The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living.

In the yang-yin symbol each half contains within it a portion of the other, signifying their complete interdependence and continual intermutability. The figure is static, but each half contains the seed of transformation. The symbol represents not a stasis but a process.

Yang is control, yin acceptance.

Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich.

I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. I accept it. It isn’t a matter of faith, but of evidence.

I see no opposition between accepting the theory of evolution and believing in God. The intellectual acceptance of a scientific theory and the belief in a transcendent deity have little or no overlap: neither can support or contradict the other.

want to see myself as a woman of strong feeling but peaceable instincts,