I love to read, and this has long been one of my favorite passages from a book called “The Invitation”.
Food for thought…
“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.
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, 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, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint others to be true to yourself, so as not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful to yourself and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see the beauty even when it is not pretty every day. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine. 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…” The Invitation.
Love,
Victoria xo
