Madeleine L'Engle Quote

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
We can give a child a self-image. But is this a good idea? Hitler did a devastating job at that kind of thing. So does Chairman Mao. … I haven't defined a self, nor do I want to. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.


Section 1.10 - The Crosswicks Journal - A Circle of Quiet (1972)


We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image....

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image....

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image....

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image....