Emilie Richards

“The whole world is a series of miracles, But we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” -Hans Christian Anderson

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though we sometimes think we sense it. But even without deeper reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people – first of all for those upon whose smiles…

When someone spews something really hurtful, don’t pick it up and hold it and rub rub it into your heart and snuggle with it and carry it around for a long time. Don’t even put energy into kicking it to the curb. You gotta see it and step OVER it or go AROUND it and…

“The One Who Plants Trees, Knowing That He Will Never Sit In Their Shade, Has Started To Understand The Meaning Of Life.” -Rabindranath Tagore

Do you wish you could do yesterday all over again, only better? Are you sorry you haven’t done everything you meant to last week? Are you worried about tomorrow? Ralph Waldo Emerson has advice for all of us. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is…

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day…” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,”…

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critcs. Few will know our content.” ~Emile Zola Yes, we are all like books, aren’t we? But what kind of book are you: a mystery with many secrets to unravel, a romance with love guiding…

Several years ago, I invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn’t say a word (that caught everyone’s attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: “EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO…

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. There are some things in our social system to which all of us ought to be maladjusted. Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do…