Mary Caroline Richards Quotes

#1. Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Mary Caroline Richards

#2. Compassion is an alternate perception

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#3. Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

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#4. Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?

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#5. Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

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

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

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#8. Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

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#9. Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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 not give us peace until we do.

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#12. The big art is our life.

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#13. 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.

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#14. We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration ...

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#15. For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

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

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#17. There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

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#18. In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

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#19. People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

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#20. All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Mary Caroline Richards