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The Invitation- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful to be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.” It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. What you need to know
Name: Meggyo Status: in a relationship Occupation: student at Slippery Rock Unviersity Majors: exercise science and enlgish lit Location: Hershey PA for now Who I am: a ridiculous short girl who is trying to live the most now while looking so eagerly foward to the rest of her life Where I wish I was: in his arms Current question: should I stop wishing for things to go back to how they used to be? Song of the day: ps. if this is austin by Brad Paisley The Dance- OMD
I have sent you my invitation, the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living. Don’t jump up and shout, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!” Just stand up quietly and dance with me. Show me how you follow your deepest desires, spiraling down into the ache within the ache, and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day. Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart. Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved. Tell me a story of who you are, and see who I am in the stories I live. And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice. Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next and the next and the next. . . I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring. Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness? And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud. Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart. And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again. Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money. Show me how you offer to your people and the world the stories and the songs you want our children’s children to remember. And I will show you how I struggle not to change the world, but to love it. Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging. Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day. And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within. Don’t say, “Yes!” Just take my hand and dance with me. | Love and life Tuesday. 12.26.06 2:20 pm I just finished watching The Notebook and not that a movie is always the innovation for someone to look at their own love and life, and it wasn't even the movie today, but I figured I'd just mention the movie because it made me think of other things too. I've thought a lot about love this past week being away from Keith. The things I find missing are the things no one else can replace. I guess it is those qualities that I adore and inevitably have fallen so deeply in love with. It's only with Keith that I feel so safe lying next to no matter what just happened in our lives or what time of day it is. I could always lay next to him. There's also the way we talk, using words and derrivitive that only we and our circle of friends are familiar with. There's the tones and emphases on certain phrases that only we know the meaning of and can laugh at. There are dances and gestures that can pick us up and make us laugh again. There's the hug that even though the difference in height seems significant we still fit together right. There's the surprise visits and knocks on the door, the making coffee and food for each other, the running out of the shower shiveringly cold no matter how warm I keep my room, the stealing of blankets and elbowing at night in a twin sized bed, the sharing of pillows between the knees and the always forgotten toothbrush. There's the driving somewhere and the selection of music, grocery shopping shopping cart included, walking in the cold, snow, rain and heat. There's the occasional meal or event out where it's no big deal anymore who pays because love has no measure of money. Then there's shopping for something and always finding something else for the other, going through each day catologuing things to remember to tell each other, the wearing of each other's clothes that must be magical because they can always fit both of us, the random singing and skipping in public, holdings hands that I swear were molded for one another, and the bunny butt. These are the things I miss and love, these are the things I would want to remember. Last night David asked me if I thought Keith was the one. Quite the question, I'd say look above if you are not sure. 2 Comments. amen to all of that.... that's how i felt/still kinda feel about christine....it really makes losing her all the more heartbreaking...but hey...whatcha gonna do? i guess life isn't fair sometimes...still trying to move on..."trying" being the keyword....being around friends helps...but as soon as I'm alone...I kind of slip right back into thinking about her....I guess I need to keep working on it » Rip-Tide-Prophecy on 2006-12-26 11:53:04 It is remarkable, rather amusing opinion The question is removed tramadol ultram It is remarkable, rather valuable piece phentermine no prescription This message, is matchless))) Clonazepam 2mg Your opinion is useful adipex online Rather excellent idea xanax prescription 1184f4 » Claude (123.125.156.144) on 2010-09-03 08:09:44
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