Healing Holistix

The Invitation

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

bet some of you guys have read this poem. At the moment I'm reading the book that goes with the poem, don't know if any one else has, but in it Oriah breaks the poem down into individual parts and then writes her feeling, thoughts and insights on that part. Then at the end of each chapter she gives a meditation to do, relevant to that part of the poem. I'm finding it a really great read, very insightful with areas that i really relate to. It is also very sad in places, a couple of times, if it wasn't for the fact that i was reading it in public places, i could have cried and very nearly did.

That is a really big healing and affirmation.

Thank you AM,
in complete resonance.
love
linnyx

this extract from the book was one of the bits that i could have cried over


"try this one morning as you are lying in your bed: imagine millions of men and women all around the world rising from their beds where the sun finds them-leaving the back supporting mattresses and straw pallets, hammocks,futons and thin blankets on dirt floors-to take care of the children. regardless of their relgion, culture or material circumstances, there are noses to be wiped, bellies to be fed, tears to be dried and answers to be provided for the questions of young minds. In modern cities and remote villages, luxurious mansions and desolate refugee camps, fires are lit, stoves are turned on, cereal boxes are opened, water is drawn from taps or pumps or streams, fruit is peeled, and breasts are bared for hungry mouths. it doesn't matter whether the men and women have the resources to adequately provide what the children need, or whether they feel like getting up and doing what has to be done -life cries out in its need to continue whether the providers are ill or healthy, illiterate or educated, despairing or filled with enthusiasm for life.

reach out one morning with your imagination and feel them, the millions of men and women who do the best they can every day to feed their children's bodies, hearts and minds"

WOW!

roger on that one,
wiping noses everywhere.....so happy for this opportunity,
my higher self can do this,
love,
linnyx