Hi Everyone, I shared this prose poem, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, with Moving Meditation this past Sunday morning. Hope you all enjoy it too. Namaste, Erin
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 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, 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 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, 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. | 
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