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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.
13 comments:
Good eye Isadora - this is fantastic!
Interesting picture. I really like it!
Thats a great shot..what a big building...like the way you captured it!!
Enjoy the weekend!
Cat
I love the sun on the buildings, and the buildings look neat also.
The building right in the middle of the picture is gorgeous.
Have a nice and warm weekend! :)
I like the yellow color on the building.
That's a great capture of light. Good eye to notice it and then capture the image for us all! :D Nice work.
Great architecture...
Good eye. Looks like the old buildings are not getting any sunlight except from the reflections from the windows of the new building.
what a great architecture and your photo as well.
have a good weekend.
Fantastic play of light!!! How lucky you were there, at just the right time. A few minutes, one way or the other, and it would not have been the same.
Mari-Nanci
what a great picture! i wouldn't mind working in one of those beautiful buildings at all!!
My first thought was how wonderful to capture the light!....and then there are the buildings and the color and how you have angled this, I love this photo...
...and in a little way it reminds me some of the buildings within Venice.
Love it. Fun.
Pam
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