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What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairly tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture.

— Madeleine L'Engle The Expanding Universe (1963)

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In kairos that part of us which is not consumed in the burning is wholly awake.

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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

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Nothing important is completely explicable.

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We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

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We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

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