Quotes by Richards, Mary Caroline

"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."

Richards, Mary Caroline on adversity
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"Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will."

Richards, Mary Caroline on enemies   

"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."

Richards, Mary Caroline on joy   

"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."

Richards, Mary Caroline on freedom   

"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

Richards, Mary Caroline on imagination   

"It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on."

Richards, Mary Caroline on perseverance   

"It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold."

Richards, Mary Caroline on knowledge   

"To have character is to be big enough to take life on."

Richards, Mary Caroline on character   

"Truth is reality."

Richards, Mary Caroline on truth   

"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline on action
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"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

Richards, Mary Caroline on choice