Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Letting Go

Quotes about: Letting Go

• Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Creativity, Eye

• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

• I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Journey, Light

• It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Ashes, World

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.95, Macmillan

• the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Discovery, Reason

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.137, Macmillan

• Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Dark, Artist

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