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on Mon 8 May 06, 10:37 PM to EricStanton's blog.
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 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'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 and mine, and still 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 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.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
| 15 Aug 06, 1:11 AM Missdeed UK, 5 yrs |
beautiful :.(
why has this been crossed out???
it shouldnt be.
that is so beautiful and so true.
something each one of us chould aspire to Edited 29 Nov 06, 11:51 AM by Missdeed | |
| 10 Jan 08, 9:21 AM Missdeed UK, 5 yrs |
someone asked me what am i looking for in a Dom/Master/Man...well, this is it
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| 13 Feb 09, 8:15 PM PhoenixAmber UK(YO), 4 yrs |
I wonder if being able to say 'yes I can' to all of those points is what we all strive for, as is implied in the writing it is easy to be that strong, grounded and open when all is well with you but when pain is raw or hurt is real it is indeed easier to shrink away than to stand and risk it all. It is in the risk that we find more strength, and with the trust that we are freed beyond the boundries of human insecurites and failings. We all seek i believe someone who looks at us and sees us as beautiful scars and all. "Ha ! I laugh at danger and drop ice cubes down the vest of fear." Edited 13 Feb 09, 8:17 PM by PhoenixAmber | |
| 12 Mar 09, 1:59 AM EricStanton UK(BD), 11 yrs |
The older I get the more I recall.........how little I knew when I knew it all. |
