Provoking Thoughts
An excerpt from the book “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula Leguin
“The unknown, the unproven, the unforetold, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Catholics, no Buddhists, no Muslims, no Jews, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion…what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevitable-the only certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?”
“That we shall die.”
”Yes. There’s really only one question that can be answered and we already know the answer….the only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
