Oriah Mountain Dreamer's Notes
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.
© Mountaindreaming, from the book The Invitation published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1999 All rights reserved
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Nice to see others in the UK on here…
I look forward to sharing with you…
~***~ In L♥Ve, LiGhT, InSpiRaTiOn & J♥Y!! ~***~
Cindy x
We all hope the new President ofAmerica, will be a sensible person abowe all hope the new President ofAmerica, will be a sensible person about the problems of tyhe poorest and the weakers.
Esperamos que el nuevo presidente de Estados Unidos será sensible a los problemas de los más pobres y débiles.
Estaré meditando con amor, desde España por todo ellout the problems of the poorest and the weakers.
Esperamos que el nuevo presidente de Estados Unidos será sensible a los problemas de los más pobres y débiles.
Estaré meditando con amor, desde España por todo ello
Thank you also for taking action to be my friend.
love, catarina
Aphrodite is the alchemy in one. She is not a virgin Goddess as: Athena, Artemis, or Persephone (virgin in a symbolic way: as pure or inmaculated in thought, not conditioned by social thinking). Neither a mother goddess as: Demeter, Hera or Hestia. She represents desire and alchemy. She is the only goddess that could generate and make some one fall in love with her. She uses the cestus (girdle) as symbol of generation. But this desire has to be for the right reason, clear in thought words and act.
The union of Aphrodite and Ares generated not in balance: Deimos (fear) and Phobos (Panic).
In love and balance their union generated: Harmonia (Harmony) and some versions say that also Eros.
We already are all the virtues, but when the desire is not clear in: understanding, a little doubtful, with a speckle of fear or without patience... the outcome may be not as expected. This is the reason why sometimes we have to balance our desires by calling other goddess or gods to help us make the desire: with love and in harmony. Then the outcome will be as expected.
Give it a little thought. Mars, is the planet that represent Ares, and Venus the planet that represent Aphrodite. They are just separated by Earth. The months that represent them. March: Ares and April: Aphrodite. Maybe these expressions are showing us something important.
Bless you buddy - hope to catch up in person very soon!
Lucky Phil
Thank you so much for sending me this information - WOW - I am sure that I will be in touch with you again before long....
With love and respect for all that you're doing to raise people's consciousness
Helen
love Frankie
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