-Madeleine L'Engle A Circle of Quiet

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware...So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we also escape our self-conscious selves.”

“When we play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.”