On Aka, god is a word without referent. No capital letters. No creator, only creation. No eternal father to reward and punish, justify injustice, ordain cruelty, offer salvation. Eternity not an endpoint but a continuity. Primal division of being into material and spiritual only as two-as-one, or one in two aspects. [...] The Akan system is a spiritual discipline with spiritual goals, but they're exactly the same goals it seeks for bodily and ethical well-being. Right action is its own reward. Dharma without karma.


Ch. 4, §3 (p. 94) - Hainish Cycle - The Telling (2000)

Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

On Aka, god is a word without referent. No capital letters. No creator, only creation. No eternal father to reward and punish, justify injustice,...

On Aka, god is a word without referent. No capital letters. No creator, only creation. No eternal father to reward and punish, justify injustice,...

On Aka, god is a word without referent. No capital letters. No creator, only creation. No eternal father to reward and punish, justify injustice,...

On Aka, god is a word without referent. No capital letters. No creator, only creation. No eternal father to reward and punish, justify injustice,...