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I was Reminded of this: It's Perfect. 22 months ago

The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder

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 hearts 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 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, be realistic, or 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.

I want to know if you can be faithful 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 life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of a 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 for the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you are, 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.

May 1994

Feb 09, 2008, 03:57AM PST | 1 cheer

Comments:

Enore is

I like this and understand where it comes from.

And I think it begs for some commentary. But I’m not yet able to string words together into sentences of cogency, so I’ll come back in a little while and visit it.

Feb 09, 2008, 04:16AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

I would really love to hear

what you have to say about it.

This is one of my all time favorites, I had forgotten it when Calissa read something I wrote last night and reminded me of the poem.

I’m going to print it off and put it on my board for me to remember always.

It’s so close to my own heart.

Feb 09, 2008, 04:34AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Enore is

Let me off-load the cynical stuff first.

I’ve never stood in the ranks of those who look at our native Indians as mystics.

You know, the soft-spoken man in buckskin and long hair with beads and feathers adorning it, standing by a lake with one arm outstretched at the majesty of it all, speaking to me in hushed tones about the spirits of the lake while a bald eagle circles in grand loops overhead.

I mean, I have nothing at all against Indians, but come on.

Should we all speak in hushed tones about how they tortured their enemies and made slaves out of them? (Not that there is anything wrong with that. I’m just saying, is all…)

So I’m a little put off by this just from that angle.

But…

If what this is saying is that what matters most in life is how you interface with the people and loves in your universe, then I agree.

Which is not to say that the more mundane and “commercial” aspects aren’t important, they are.

Not what one does for a living, so much as that one is able to provide for those for whom one is responsible…those sorts of things.

If that’s the sort of thing that Big Bear Flying Butt is trying to tell us, then I agree.

Feb 09, 2008, 07:43AM PST | Respond to this

christinet has been in a cave of despair

so nice

to talk to you…..we’ll talk again soon

Feb 09, 2008, 07:29AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

It was so good to talk to you Beautiful

I hope you have a good night at work. Christi, honey remember you can call me anytime, anytime.

I love you Baby.

I am sending good stuff to you…
Blessings are in the wind.

Feb 09, 2008, 11:16AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

christinet has been in a cave of despair

I

will leave my windows open…..

Feb 09, 2008, 08:14PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

That is so cute Crhisti

I think I like that very much.

Please keep those windows open.

You just never know when a Seren will come tossing little pebbles on it, whispering.

_{Hey Christi, you awake… Wanna talk?}

Smile…

Feb 10, 2008, 02:44AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

christinet has been in a cave of despair

I'm awake now

but what the hell time is it there….anywayz….anytime you feel like getting some Florida in your life, come on down…..

Feb 10, 2008, 06:31AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

You know Girl. - ~*Serenity*~

Flirt is wearing her very warm purple (wild)cat socks today - THANKS MamaKitty!

I really like this, T

I’m going to borrow it for and post it on one of my goals, if you don’t mind.

Feb 09, 2008, 03:06PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

I don't mind at all honey.

Feel free to.

It’s beautiful to me.

Feb 09, 2008, 03:33PM PST | Respond to this

Calissa wonders why she's so tired lately.

Glad I could help

I do love this poem.

Feb 10, 2008, 02:37AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

So do I Sweetness

It touches deep places in me and reminds me of WHO I really am.

I can’t thank you enough for reminding me.

Feb 10, 2008, 02:42AM PST | Respond to this

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