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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:
I pray things you are well...and things are good with you. Your posts and thoughts will be missed.
Take care!
: )
I hope things are well with you and yours. We'll miss you but will be here, awaiting your return!
We'll be here! Hope you can come back soon!
My thoughts are with you Isadora. Take care.
Thank you so much for you kind words. Some things we just have to go through not knowing what God has in mind for us. My daughter left yesterday I did not want to go in the hospital until she left.
I pray God His will be done.
"My daughter left yesterday"
Isadora ? She had left only the hospital ???
I'm afraid that I haven't understand...
Will look forward to your return! Cathy
Take care. Look forward to your return :)
And Skywalker said: "May the force be with you", whenever you need it!
I hope to read you soon, my thoughts are with you.
Julie, Hope everything is okay and awaiting your return.
We'll just wait. We miss you...
We are looking forward to your return!
Thank you, thank you and forgive me for not being clear. My daughter was visiting me and didn't want to worry her by going into the hospital while she was here.
All is well with me - so they say. Unfortunately, my brother tells me that a Cat Scan on my Mother reveals what they assume is lung cancer. NOBODY in the family ever smoked, but she did have pneumonia for months now. :(
Unfortunately, I'll not be able to visit and be a help to my brother but am very happy to have had the opportunity to be there for a month in the spring.
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