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.
12 comments:
Yes, and it's amazing perspective.
Mari-Nanci
Yes, and I want to buy some and plant them. What a nice walk way.
Yes it does! There are lots of interesting things in this picture.
i want to have a sniff at the fragrance of the flowers!
It looks like a quaint flower shop. I see a few things I want to buy. I bet this pathway gets crowded when it rains.
The photograph is beautiful, has very good subject the gallery with arches, in which appear intensely the prospect, the colours, the corner of reception, the green of flowers that it emits hope, and beautiful comment.
Marvellously.
Amazing perspective. And I could almost feel the scent of the flowers.
c'est un magasin de fleurs ?
It is a flower shop?
If the building is "not a particularly attractive" one, you made it so with this photo. Awesome!
Beautiful flowers.
Just want to say the cats do not go outside and yes it gets to be a pain in the you know were when you can't stretch your legs. Thank goodness not all the cats sleep in my bed. But I do have enough of them for sure. But wouldn't trade them for anything.
wow. very lovely! what a nice and peaceful arcade with flowers.
Where this is crocus, can spring be far behind. LOVE it!!! Cathy
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