{"id":108,"date":"2009-12-27T23:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-12-27T23:55:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:55:52","slug":"the-invitation-by-oriah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/the-invitation-by-oriah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invitation by Oriah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nwhat you do for a living.<br \/>\nI want to know<br \/>\nwhat you ache for<br \/>\nand if you dare to dream<br \/>\nof meeting your heart\u2019s longing.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nhow old you are.<br \/>\nI want to know<br \/>\nif you will risk<br \/>\nlooking like a fool<br \/>\nfor love<br \/>\nfor your dream<br \/>\nfor the adventure of being alive.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nwhat planets are<br \/>\nsquaring your moon&#8230;<br \/>\nI want to know<br \/>\nif you have touched<br \/>\nthe centre of your own sorrow<br \/>\nif you have been opened<br \/>\nby life\u2019s betrayals<br \/>\nor have become shrivelled and closed<br \/>\nfrom fear of further pain.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know<br \/>\nif you can sit with pain<br \/>\nmine or your own<br \/>\nwithout moving to hide it<br \/>\nor fade it<br \/>\nor fix it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know<br \/>\nif you can be with joy<br \/>\nmine or your own<br \/>\nif you can dance with wildness<br \/>\nand let the ecstasy fill you<br \/>\nto the tips of your fingers and toes<br \/>\nwithout cautioning us<br \/>\nto be careful<br \/>\nto be realistic<br \/>\nto remember the limitations<br \/>\nof being human.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nif the story you are telling me<br \/>\nis true.<br \/>\nI want to know if you can<br \/>\ndisappoint another<br \/>\nto be true to yourself.<br \/>\nIf you can bear<br \/>\nthe accusation of betrayal<br \/>\nand not betray your own soul.<br \/>\nIf you can be faithless<br \/>\nand therefore trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know if you can see Beauty<br \/>\neven when it is not pretty<br \/>\nevery day.<br \/>\nAnd if you can source your own life<br \/>\nfrom its presence.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know<br \/>\nif you can live with failure<br \/>\nyours and mine<br \/>\nand still stand at the edge of the lake<br \/>\nand shout to the silver of the full moon,<br \/>\n\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nto know where you live<br \/>\nor how much money you have.<br \/>\nI want to know if you can get up<br \/>\nafter the night of grief and despair<br \/>\nweary and bruised to the bone<br \/>\nand do what needs to be done<br \/>\nto feed the children.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nwho you know<br \/>\nor how you came to be here.<br \/>\nI want to know if you will stand<br \/>\nin the centre of the fire<br \/>\nwith me<br \/>\nand not shrink back.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me<br \/>\nwhere or what or with whom<br \/>\nyou have studied.<br \/>\nI want to know<br \/>\nwhat sustains you<br \/>\nfrom the inside<br \/>\nwhen all else falls away.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know<br \/>\nif you can be alone<br \/>\nwith yourself<br \/>\nand if you truly like<br \/>\nthe company you keep<br \/>\nin the empty moments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oriahmountaindreamer.com\">By Oriah \u00a9 Mountain Dreaming<\/a>,<br \/>\nfrom the book The Invitation<br \/>\npublished by HarperONE, San Francisco,<br \/>\n1999 All rights reserved <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t interest me what you do for a living. 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