Breastfeeding Yout Husband

book recommendation

The invitation
- by Oriah Mountain Dreamer


This book changed my life It's warm, practical, humorous and wise
It begins with this poem:

The invitation
..
It does not interest me how you earn your money.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of to meet the desire of your heart.

It does not interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk to make you fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It does not interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the core of your suffering if you have been opened by the disappointments of life, or shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without doing anything to hide it, to reduce him to bring him or her in order.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own
if you dance with wildness and let fill of ecstasy can be up to the tips can go your fingers and toes without admonish us to be cautious, realistic to be, or to remember the limitations of being human.

It does not interest me if the story you've told 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.

I want to know if you can see beauty, even if it is not every day is beautiful, and
if you leave your life from ITS presence can arise.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still can stand at the end of a lake to retrieve the silver moon, "Yes."

It does not interest me to know where you live, and how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and broken in order to care for the children.

It does not interest me to know who you are, and how is it that you're here.
I want to know if you're standing in the middle of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It does not interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what carries you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with you, and if you like your company in the empty moments really.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer