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.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence
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.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Adversity
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Choice
Truth is reality.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Truth
Compassion is an alternate perception
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Kindness
Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Enemy, Enemies
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Imagination
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.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Identity, Self-Knowledge
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Character
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.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Enjoyment
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Freedom
We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.
—M. C. Richards
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
—M. C. Richards
Topics: Action
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