THE INVITATION
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want 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 dreams, 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 center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by
life's betrayals or have become shriveled 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 dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to
the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be
realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're 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. I want to know if you can
be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty
even when it is not pretty every day ... and if you can source your life from
its own presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,
and still stand on the shore of a lake and shout to the silver of a 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 a night of grief and despair and do what
needs to be done for 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 center 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.
Orian Mountain Dreamer, Native Elder
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