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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. | God, spirituality, religion Friday. 4.27.07 2:25 pm So this morning I felt curiously compelled to just talk a lot... in class of course, about all kinds of things. Well I told dodds steve and joshua how I was going to church this weekend and that they should be proud of me haha. From there we talked about church. I am more comfortable with the belief that you can be spiritual without the church aspect, that the more people I talk to don't need that ritual or systematic information presented in such a militant fashion, that they call their religiousness a personal connection, just knowing that there is a higher power, and that Lent or church or sermones are not a necessity, because that really is what irritates me about the whole religion thing. Well, no, there are more things that I disagree with, and those things can be avoided by simply NOT going to church. As Josh put it, the church has shown itself to be currupt in many ways. For him he found out that his minister was having an affair. My parents stopped going when the minister started preaching about things that were fundamentally backwards and that the donation money was going to pay for the court cases of priests who molested kids. Humans therefor are currupt and so who is a priest or minister or whole system then to be untainted and provide an ideal example? So, skip the middle man and just deal with Him yourself. I think I could almost approach it like that.
On the other hand, I don't yet believe in Heaven even though I would love to. I also don't think that God created the world, or humans to be ideal. I believe in science. I believe in kharma to the extent that what we experience is what we perceieve. Our attitude is our sense of free will. THe power of humans and the trust in that higher being may be in understanding that if perceived the way He would want you to, then you will be happy, no matter what, that your loss may end up for someone else's greater good at the time. However, The five people you meet in heaven is an awesome book and ideally that IS what I would want out of God and heaven, but yet, it's too perfect. If the point of living is to learn, then why get all the answers at the end of the test? I think that would be too easy. My mom always told me that when I was ready and when I needed to I would figure out what I believed in. I guess maybe because even though death as a kid scared me enough, being 21 now, mortality is that much more of a reality and somewhere in my psyche I need to console it. Interestingly, on Grey's one doctor was saying how she believes in science, and the other said, that in instances like the one they were in where they felt completely hopelss, is why he has to believe in something higher... whether that is a mind body connection, or reincarnation or religion. Because if not we would drive ourselves crazy. I think maybe that's how I am... and maybe I'm trying to figure out what i CAN believe in so that I don't drive myself crazy anymore. Ok well shopping time... continue this later Recommended by 3 Members    6 Comments. I think deep down everyone knows what they do or dont believe just sometimes its easy to question or get confused about bc it could suck if your wrong lol » lyndeep on 2007-04-28 12:42:26 you could always catch the grenades and throw them back...but not playing at all would probably be a more effective way to LIVE » Rip-Tide-Prophecy on 2007-05-02 02:50:00 yay it would be so much fun if we could do it. casey and i went when the weather sucked and we still had a blast! Mexico huh? I thought about there too, I looked into building houses there when i was looking into how to save the sea turtles! » GooseGirl on 2007-05-02 04:54:40 Do not despond! More cheerfully! Can fill a blank... cheap tramadol Matchless phrase ;) buy clomid online I do not understand something buy ultram I have thought and have removed the message kamagra jelly Rather valuable piece john player cigarettes fa09f7 » Dalton (78.46.111.152) on 2010-09-06 10:08:44 Excuse, it is removed You were visited with simply excellent idea cheap xanax online I about such yet did not hear purchase xanax bars What necessary words... super, magnificent idea buy ultram Whether there are analogues? how do i get prescribed xanax Yes, all is logical xanax price 8fac65 » Preston (118.98.172.140) on 2011-06-08 01:46:22 Logical question I think, that you have misled. cheap acomplia Quite right! So. cheap valium Today I read on this question much. zithromax without prescription Many thanks. order meridia It agree, it is a remarkable piece accutane canada fac659f » Shad (178.173.128.11) on 2011-07-09 05:51:49
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