Monday 23 December 2013

An invitation to have the year of your life...


2014 will begin with me being fully self employed...the Quitting the 9 to 5 journey has truly begun! I'm approaching it with a heart that is racing in anticipation of the life I can now create for myself and my son and it has reminded me how important it is to be fully authentic in your choices. It's been a good time I've had teaching...I've learnt so much...but the future feels more 'me', more of a feeling of it being 'right'.

Living a good life is not the same as living the right life for you...sometimes a reminder is needed that we don't get to turn around on our last day on earth and in a panic suddenly realise we still want more time to do the things we REALLY wanted to do. Those things we dreamed about but never really felt we could pursue...

I went to my bookshelves today to find a book to read and found the perfect book in the perfect moment...no doubt you might have read this before but it say's everything I have been thinking in a far better way than I ever could. Happy Christmas and have a wonderful New Year, full of exciting new things that make your heart sing!

Enjoy...

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 hearts 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 center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled 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
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's 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 or mine,
and stand on 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 center 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
on 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.

By Oriah Mountain Dreamer



Love Nova xxx