The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwo…

Madeleine L'Engle
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The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2017). The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention, p.10, Open Road Media
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