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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.

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

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

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

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Letting Go, Dark, Artist

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

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