The Invitation, Written May 1994, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. Native American Elder

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
• I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare 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 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 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 fake 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, be realistic, or 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.
• I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore 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 God’s 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 moon, “YES!”
• It doesn’t interest me to know where you live and 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 to know who you are, 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 and what and 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.

"There are no mistakes, just forks in the road."
kiriel

"The Origin of Rhythm has been a source of wonder since ancient times. Sanskrit tells of four great ages, or yugas through which we move with the revolving tendency of creation. The four great yuga ages of golden, silver, bronze and iron were also described by ancient Hesiod in ancient Greece. Taoists say that rhythm comes between elements of yin and yang. The Buddhist Cycle moves in four periods of immense length between destruction and perfection that repeat in ciphers. All Rhythms are described as the Dance of Shiva.

The Dance of Shiva is the cosmic dance of all Rhythms in the universe. From astrophysics of space, to our new nano-technology of building microscopic machines at sub-molecular levels, our grasp of this is widening. Pioneer and Voyager space probes have searched the solar system. The Hubbel telescope is showing us things about the galaxy we never knew. Science is working on quantum physics and the "Unified Field" theory. We have penetrated the atom and discovered Quarks, the subatomic particles of matter. Many believe "Superstrings" of elementary patterns run through all existence, and that a "Theory of Everything" will eventually reveal only a handful of formulas rule the universe from a substratum of time, space and matter. Bernoit Mandelbrot developed Fractals. These are amazingly complex and self repeating patterns that can be plotted with simple mathematical formulas. Simplicity breeds complexity and Chaos theory has shown that even order and disorder are interconnected. Through it all, the more we look through the telescope and the microscope, the more we are finding similar patterns with each.

Teachings of the ancient mystics are being realized before our eyes. Twelfth and thirteenth century Sufis like Jalal al-Din Rumi said that the microcosm is the macrocosm, as many others have seen. Nuclear physicist Fritzoff Capra wrote his "Tao of Physics" to show how the latest science and the earliest religions are telling the same story. This exciting energy is in our auric field right now. It is the kind of energy that has spawned simultaneous discovery in historic breakthroughs around the world. A source of inspiration is being felt more and more.

Romantics say that mathematics and music are throughout the universe. The math is in the Rhythms, Rhythms are the music, and music moves the universe. A chart of Cycles is the sheet music to the Dance of Shiva. The dance is within us. We are learning how living systems have internal Rhythms that move like clockwork from the time of birth. The dance is around us. We build nations and live in a world that changes in Cycles. All life is Cyclical.

We Live in a World of Rhythm. "

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"~~your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it~~"
Buddha

" Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises." Christopher Morely