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.
16 comments:
Yes we are. Congrats on post number 100. And let me tell you, what a photo comes with it. I see why the pastry is to one you like most. It must be blessed with such magnificent view.
Congratulations on 100 posts!
Fantastic shot!
I'm hungry...I could go for one of those pastries!!
You have more snow than we do. Congratulations!
Congratulations on your 100th post!!! Bravo! Bravo! And thanks to you, we ARE having fun, in Budapest! Neat image today, very interesting look!
congratulations on your achievement!
Lovely photo!
Alexander
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Congratulations on your 100th post. Keeping these blogs up day after day is a lot of work.
I like the charming mix of old and new, all lying under the same blanket of snow. It must be very cold in Budapest right now.
Congratulations Isadora! It looks very cold there. Brrr. But beautiful.
I love the snow, with pastries it would be perfect
Congrats on your 100th post. wonderful work. Also I would like to see when they have finished.
BEAUTIFUL SHOT!!!!! wow, what a fantastic picture with the snow! and congratulations on your 100th!! very well done!
This 100th post is great. Congratulation! Wishing you another wonderful100 post to take and to show them with us!
Congratulations, thats a freezing photo...
With Images
Congratulations on 100! I like this view from the pastry shop.
Yes, we are having fun! Not as much as you (pastry shop ;-)), but enough...
Congrats and looking forward to many more sights of Budapest!
100 great job! Neat pic also.
Great shot, and I'm sure the Ruszwurm pastry shop would be my favorite too!
I was having fun with your penguins, lol.
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