Madeline L’Engle’s brilliance, depth, more on display here —

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

Worse than physical acquisitions are spiritual ones, small grudges, jealousies, and hurt feelings.

The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier.