Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turm…

Madeleine L'Engle
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Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (1989). Sold Into Egypt: Joseph's Journey Into Human Being, Shaw
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, p.133, Open Roa … ▶
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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2013). A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy, p.28, Macmillan
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Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

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