Get There Early

Notes

Some chapters begin with a brief quote from Ursula K. Le Guin’s new English version of the Tao Te Ching. My intent is to link thought about the future to wisdom from the past. As Le Guin says in her introduction: “I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that reader to see why people have loved the book for twenty-five hundred years. It is the most lovable of all the great religious texts, funny, keen, kind, modest, indestructibly outrageous, and inexhaustibly refreshing. Of all the deep springs, this is the purest water. To me, it is also the deepest spring.” Ursula LeGuin, Lao Tzu:Tao ...