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Excerpts from The Invitation Oriah Mountain Dreamer returned
home from a typical social gathering, a party and felt frustrated at
the superficial connections and posturing that is socially expected at
such events. She put pen to paper and produced a poem that
quickly spread world-wide.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dream
of meeting your heart's
longing.
Who you really are as a conscious individual is inspired by the feeling
deep within. It is sacred. It is given to you to be
expressed through you. When you talk from the eyes up you are
just making it up as best you can.
Your head has no idea what you are meant to be doing with your
life. Maybe your heart hasn't revealed it all either, but it will
reveal the next step, even if the next step is 'be patient and do
nothing'.
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.
One way we try and control our lives, which are not controllable, is to
decide how we want to feel or should feel. We don't get taught
how to understand and approach feelings when growing up. We
instead think that distraction and avoidance is a solution and we carry
on through adulthood the same way.
To sit and surrender and not wish anything away is healing,
forever. You clear the past and are then free to discover more of
your heart's longing.
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.
Ahh the curse of social conditioning. The unwillingness to feel
the ups and downs. The belief that something bad will follow something
good. It doesn't. Something bad will follow a misplaced
attitude, cockiness, pumping your-self up, taking all the credit but
good fortune and joy can be there without fear, shame or guilt.
I want to know if you can disappoint
another to be true to yourself.
People don't care half as much about what you do as you think.
Sure they will care about your happiness and well-being to greater or
lesser degree, but if you make a change in your life, people won't care
for longer than about 6 hours before something else more important
grabs their attention.
Sure there might be short-term disappointment but love is wanting what
another wants for themselves. If they are not supportive they are
acting out of their own fears and selfish wishes, even if they convince
themselves it is for love.
I want to know if you can be alone with
yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty
moments.
Some people are designed to thrive in the company of others and to
enjoy being around people so don't think that if you prefer to not be
alone there is something wrong. However there is a difference
between
this and disliking yourself and trying to distract yourself. If
you do need to spend time alone, are you OK with it or are you running
from all that you are?
Due to copyright restrictions I have only reproduced a small section of
the most relevant parts of the poem The Invitation Oriah Mountain
Dreamer. These are the sections most relevant to the theme of
this website.
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