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The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And yes, I loved.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Movement energizes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to
celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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