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is the book one writes if it will be too difficult for grown-ups.

If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

is the worst thing of all to allow ourselves to be called. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers–ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.

is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

 it's impossible to be self-aware of. The moment it becomes self-conscious, it becomes hubris: one cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

is, in fact, extreme concentration and when the child is at play the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

Madeleine L'Engle

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