Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
Mary Anne RadmacherSpeak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.
Mary Anne RadmacherGreat leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
Mary Anne RadmacherBe avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened
Mary Anne RadmacherLive with intention. Walk to the edge. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne RadmacherLiving in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
Mary Anne RadmacherLOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
Mary Anne RadmacherIf you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.
Mary Anne RadmacherAsk today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
Mary Anne RadmacherMay your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
Mary Anne RadmacherLife is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
Mary Anne RadmacherI am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
Mary Anne RadmacherMy key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
Mary Anne RadmacherNurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
Mary Anne RadmacherForgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Mary Anne RadmacherI recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.
Mary Anne RadmacherIt is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
Mary Anne RadmacherA bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?
Mary Anne RadmacherVision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.
Mary Anne RadmacherIt is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.
Mary Anne RadmacherIntentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive.
Mary Anne RadmacherDare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.
Mary Anne RadmacherIt is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.
Mary Anne RadmacherIt takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.
Mary Anne RadmacherCuriosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
Mary Anne RadmacherPick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.
Mary Anne RadmacherBegin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.
Mary Anne Radmacher