Doing What You Must Do

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.”

–Ursula K. Le Guin (American Writer, 1929-)

“A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)” (Ursula K. Le Guin)