A House Like a Lotus Quotes

“Max had a book with her and began leafing through it, looking for something. "There's a passage our conversation reminds me of ..."
"What?"
"In the Upanishads -- a series of Sanskrit works which are part of the Veda. Here it is Pol, listen: In this body, in this town of Spirit, there is a little house shaped like a lotus, and in that house there is a little space. There is as much in that little space within the heart as there is in the whole world outside. Maybe that little space is the realty of your you and my me?"
"Could I copy that?" I asked.
"Of course. I've been watching that little space within your heart enlarging all year as more and more ideas are absorbed into it. Some people close their doors and lock them so that nothing can come in, and the space cannot hold anything as long as the heart clutches in self-protection or lust or greed. But if we're not afraid, that little space can be so large that one could put a whole universe in it and still have room for more.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“A. J. Wheeler. He says: “Nothing is more important about the quantum principle than this, that it destroys the concept of the world as ‘sitting out there,’ with the observer safely separated from it by a 20-centimeter slab of plate glass. Even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron, we must shatter the glass.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“The cold place within me that had frozen and constricted my heart was gone. My heart was like a lotus, and in that little space there was room enough for Osia Theola, for all of Cyprus. For all the stars in all of the galaxies. For all those bubbles which were island universes.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus

“He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus