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The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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 desire.
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 dreams, 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 sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals,
or have become shriveled
and closed for the fear of future pain.
I
want to know if you can sit with pain,
mine or your own,
without moving to hide it, 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,
or to remember the limitations of
human beings.
It
doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true.
I want to know if you disappoint
another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the accusations of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty,
even
when it is not pretty every day,
and if you can source your life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with
failure,
yours or mine,
and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver 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 a night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what
needs to be done for the children.
It
doesn't interest me who you are now 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
When u loved...
There was once a guy who was very
much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that
time he was just a small fry in his company, his future doesn't seemed too bright, they were very happy together.
Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that
she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then ...
Heartbroken,
the guy agreed. But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day
and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself.
Finally with
all these hard work and with the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company ..."You never fail until you stop trying."
One
rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination.
Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize those were his girl's parents. With a
heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted
them to know that he wasn't the same anymore, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He made it!
Before the guy can realize, the couple was walking towards
a cemetary, and he got out of his car and followed them...and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as
ever at him from her tombstone... and he saw his paper cranes beside her.
Her
parents saw him. He asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with
cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle ...therefore she had chosen
to leave him...
"Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.” She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside
her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him ...
"Once
you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever. “Find
time to realize that there is one person who means so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person
whom you thought meant nothing to you.
The guy just wept ...
The
worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them but knowing you can't have them and will never see them
again..."
You don't have to love in words because even through the silences,
love is always heard.
Author
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The Global Spiritual Network
The Value Of An Hour
by John Assaraf
When I was 21 years old, a gentleman asked me what I thought the value of an hour was. I honestly did not know
how to answer the question. He went on to teach me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned. He suggested that
the value of an hour was priceless. This confused me some, so this is what he said to me. "If you invest one hour each day
in understanding yourself and your environment better, you will accumulate nine 40-hour weeks over the course of a year!"
Yikes!
As you can imagine, I was blown away when he put it to me that way. Nine 40- hour weeks? This seemed impossible
until I did the math. 365 days, times one hour each is...yup, nine 40-hour weeks!
He went on to ask me how good I could get at something if I did it all day, every day for just over 2 months.
Well, you already know the answer to that. I thought I could be awesome!
He went on to tell me that over the course of just five years, I would have invested the equivalent of 1,825
hours of focus on whatever I desired to accomplish my life.
Imagine for a minute, how good you can become at anything that you did one hour a day for the next year. How
fit could you get? How much more love would you get and give? How much more money could you earn?
Let me suggest that one hour is a small price to pay in comparison to the payoff. Just one hour a day
may be the razor's edge you need to really get the results you want in your life.
For me, the decision was easy. I have been studying human potential
and the mind for over 20 years. Each time I think I'm getting a good handle on it, I am gently reminded of how much there
is to observe and learn.
Is getting what you want worth an hour a day? I certainly hope so.
I still manage to set aside my hour to read motivational stories or listen to inspirational people. They are
the fuel for my mind and it keeps me learning and yearning for more.
Please adopt an hour a day for yourself!
Pick one area of your life that you want to improve and commit the next 90 days to that one thing. I assure
you that the results you achieve will be well worth the decision!
And remember...you can not take out of life more than you put in.
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John Assaraf, aka "The Street Kid", shares the exact principles and step-by-step system he used to get free
from the street gangs of his youth, to become a multi-millionaire entrepreneur before age 30 in his new book "The Street Kid's
Guide to Having it All". Free excerpts, reports andnewsletter: http://www.thestreetkid.com/haveitall
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