What wakes you up?

What brings you joy?

What  fills you up?

What fills your cup with goodness?

Notice if your cup is too full or too empty.

Be present to what fills your cup with love.

{Photo: Turkish Coffee – taken by Mary Anne Flanagan}

If we listened to the rain drops, what would they say?

If we listened to the flowers, what would they say?

If we listened to our heart, what would our heart say?

{Photo taken by: Mary Anne Flanagan}

As I walk through the city, all I keep noticing are the many amazing flowers – bursting with color.

I have been listening to the question: What is coloring my world these days?

As I sit and listen to that question, I am curious: What is coloring your world?

{Photo by: Mary Anne Flanagan}

 
Spring gives us the opportunity to recognize that we too go through endless cycles of gestation, birth, growth, death, and rebirth.

What opportunity will you explore this Spring?

Welcome to rebirthing.

Mary Anne

{Photo by: Mary Anne Flanagan
Greenwich, CT}

What is the divine question that keeps coming forward in your life and in your heart?

You are invited to place your hands on your heart for a few moments each day and listen – just listen. Reach into the infinite brilliance that is always available within. Focusing on your hand connecting with your heart, what divinely inspired question arises?

Feel your hands. Feel your heart. Open your hands. Open your heart.

Let your question show up and guide you. What is the question of your heart?

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There was particular excerpt from her book that really resonated with me:

I have come to this refuge because it is a safe place in which to tell the truth about what I feel. I am groping to understand what it might mean to truly love my life, to find out who I am beyond the economic necessities of being a mind-for-hire.  I want to stop running from my own tiredness, from the fear that if I am not accomplishing something, I will disappear.

I need to recover a rhythm in my heart that moves my body first and my mind second, that allows my soul to catch up with me. I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun-warmed rock in the center of a gushing river.

In essence, I need to come home to myself.

What are you coming home to inside yourself? What are you willing to make space for?

I am making space for stillness and coming home to freedom. And you?

Mary Anne

I am the open field that sees.

I am the wind that hears.

I am the pulse that feels.

I am the air that tastes.

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As an adult, are you hiding or seeking?

Hiders hide. Seekers seek.

And as my friend Clayton said to me, “Finders find.”

Mary Anne

I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. ~Joseph Campbell

What is your theme or focus for 2012? What are you declaring 2012 to be the year of?

MY 2012 MANTRA
Wherever I am, there is outrageous bliss.

I would love to hear your theme, focus or word for 2012!

{Photo taken by Mary Anne Flanagan on the Big Island, Hawaii}

As I plan for more adventures of outrageous bliss in my work and life, I realized how terrified I have been in every new venture and yet I keep going. I keep an index card on my desk that reads, “Do It Afraid.” For 2012, I may have to change it to, “Do It Terrified.”

I am grateful for terror for letting me show up in visible, outrageous ways.

What is the dream you have been terrified to live?

Isn’t it time you live your outrageous bliss?

Breathe – and live your dream – terrified and all.

My mantra for 2012 is: Wherever I am, I experience outrageous bliss.

Now, it’s your turn.

Mary Anne