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.
14 comments:
Thats a very nice looking building. Is that justone light hanging over the center of the intersection? Does
Wonderful picture! You got it at just the right angle.
i would never guess that the red (white?) cross is a sign for a fondue restaurant! yummy!!
Beautiful building, great detail. It looks to me like the "light" is a security camera. Is that a Swiss Fondue restaurant?
It is the paperwork for the bureaucrats, he has no time for cooking.
Most likely a Swiss restaurant. Lovely architectural detailing and very bad parking habits! ;D
the cross looks so swiss; and its hard to imagine that such a beautiful building is on an insignificant side street
- Mindless Mumbai
As you say a beautiful facade...
Beautiful architecture...
With Images
Very beautiful facade, and with those corner windows.
it is frustrating when you want to go to a favourite place and never know if it will be open! Those 'back in 10 minutes' signs are the easiest way to lose customers! Surprising that the building is still empty, after a week here those premises would be snapped up for a new business!
It would be nice to live right on the corner. I thought that place with the red cross awning was a hospital or doctor's office. :) I come across several restaurants similar to your fondue place. The restaurant is there, but it never seems to open. Eventually they close up and another restaurant pops up in its location. I hope it becomes an inexpensive sushi place. Haha!
With the building being so lovely, I wonder if this street was not always insignificant?
Or perhaps the builder simply could not put anything up, which was plain and mundane. On an insignificant street or not.
I think I like the later. :-)
Mari-Nanci
That's unusual: a fondue restaurant. I can't imagine it would do well (but I don't go out anyhow!). The building is stunning. Hopefully some day they will again design and build majestic buildings like this.
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