Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before."
"I know that. Where do you think I got my information?"
"What do you know about us?"
"I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled."
"It is beautiful," Meg said defensively.
She felt a rippling of his wings. "In the middle of your cities?"
"Well-no-but I don't live in a city."
"And is your planet peaceful?"
"Well-no-it isn't very peaceful."
"I had the idea," Proginoskes moved reluctantly within her mind, "that there are wars on your planet. People fighting and killing each other."
"Yes, that's so, but-"
"And children go hungry."
"Yes."
"And people don't understand each other."
"Not always."
"And there's-there's hate?"
"Yes."
She felt Proginoskes pulling away. "All I want to do," he was murmuring to himself, "is go some place quiet and recite the names of the stars...
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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.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: art identity stories story personality chaos cosmos
We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.
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to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.
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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: life peace faith chaos affirmation peace-of-mind cosmos
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
Madeleine L'EngleTags: life art vocation creativity living artist career creative
but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: time being kairos chronos
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: life courage bravery control life-and-living being relinquish-control
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: fantasy inspriational
... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go."
"Not a bad ability."
"... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.
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