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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
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The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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No! and are not the same thing at all!
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
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story
personality
identity
cosmos
chaos
stories
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Poets are born knowing the language of angels.
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But a planet can also become dark because of "too strong a desire for security ... the greatest evil there is." Meg resists her father's analysis. What's wrong with wanting to be safe? Mr. Murry insists that "lust for security" forces false choices and a panicked search for safety and conformity. This reminded me that my grandmother would get very annoyed when anyone would talk about "the power of love." Love, she insisted, is not power, wh..
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What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
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Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz."
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Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
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understanding
theory
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Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' mad! You won't even let me mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky?
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Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being throw..
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love
subversive
dangerous
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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all..
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mania
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
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language-learning
language-understanding
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Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
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We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
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self-care
listen
being
quiet
peace
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There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
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We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.
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But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
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Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.
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In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
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story
jesus
narrative
theology
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The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
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I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I fill you with Naming. Be! Be, butterfly and behemoth, be galaxy and grasshopper, star and sparrow, you matter, you are, be! Be caterpillar and comet, Be porcupine and planet, sea sand and solar system, sing with us, dance with us, rejoice with us, for the glory of creation, seagulls and seraphim angle worms and angel host, chrysanthemum..
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dance
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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.
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mind
imagination
wisdom
contradiction
intellect
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If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be."
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Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
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silence
quiet
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions,
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
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parenting
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I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. "Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be like everybody else,either."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There's nothing left except to try.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his."
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suffering
george-macdonald
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But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.
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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
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pain
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
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