It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
“And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.” — Madeleine L'Engle Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always… — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle Blessing Copy Share Image
“Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.” — Madeleine L'Engle Moment Copy Share Image
“One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous… — Madeleine L'Engle Best prayer Copy Share Image
“There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful… — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg,” her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Home Copy Share Image
She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Communication Copy Share Image
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other,… — Madeleine L'Engle Agape Copy Share Image
“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of… — Madeleine L'Engle Meditation Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Faith Copy Share Image
“If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when… — Madeleine L'Engle Authority Copy Share Image
“You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.” — Madeleine L'Engle Fragment Copy Share Image
“If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we’d be—we’d be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — Madeleine L'Engle Ability Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into… — Madeleine L'Engle Complexity Copy Share Image
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them… — Madeleine L'Engle Biblical Copy Share Image
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashes Copy Share Image
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle Frustration Copy Share Image
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said. "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
