Many times I've walked through Budapest being struck by something I wanted to share. Here, I do just that. What follows are glimpses along life's path that had touched my heart. Enjoy! Budapest Daily Photos recently moved to its own home. The photos here may be enlarged by clicking on them unlike BudapestResources.com website, its previous home.
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.
11 comments:
Incredible.
Your favorite cluster? Mine is the one in the center, immediately to the left (father and daughter).
What a beautiful - and very unusual - group of statues, Isadora.
Who's the guy on top?
What's the story?
Please enlighten an ignorant Englishman.
Impressive statue!
Wonderful photo and impresive statue!
cette statue est impressionnante et vraiment très belle. Elle doit être beaucoup prise en photo par les touristes
This statue is impressive and very nice. It must be much photo taken by tourists
That's such an interesting statue. I'd love to look at all of the individual characters up close. Your photo from yesterday was very funny!
Re: your comment in my blog... The Casino I picture, is not in operation. It has not been in operation in years, and years and years. It is in a beautiful old and restored building, in our City Park. Which is a museum, now.
It is only there, because it is of beautiful historic value.
Thankfully, we have no such gambling places in our city, now. Although we have to keep making sure, they do not return, in their present day version. Ugh...
Mari-Nanci
This is a magnificent statue. And a magnificent photograph.
Mari-Nanci
Greetings and thank you for visiting with me in Hungary. :)
Fenix: Don't really have a favorite, It is the whole impact as it sits on the middle of the square and generally there are people perched on the base.
Dive: if you click on the link within the message there you can find out about the figures. :) I did that link because I'm not all that certain of all the facts either.
Olivier - for sure, it is.
Smilnsigh - unfortunately, here there are MANY casinos and the general population is already poor. However, there are smokers, drinkers and gamblers a'plenty to the extent that there had been several suicides as a result of the losses.
Hope you are having a great day. It is the end of mine and about to turn the machine off.
Magnificent statue. There is so much deatil in it that I could spend hours sitting and studying it. I love the buildings in Budapest: they are massive and very detailed architecturally. Thank you for the wonderful photos. I'll be back!
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