Emilie Richards

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…

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live only as you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next…

 I’   To start the new year, here’s some past inspiration worth repeating. Enjoy. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked…