It makes no difference If YOU are: North American, South American, European, African, Asian, Australian Or from anywhere In between, We are all of one world... EARTH! And one race... HUMAN! Of the People, By the People, For the People, We are the People. ~Dene Whelchel~
The Invitation
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. 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 dream, 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 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 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. 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, if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its 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 full 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 the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know 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.
"Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it... Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade... where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
"There are many things to be shared with the Four Colors of humanity in our common destiny as one with our Mother the Earth. It is this sharing that must be considered with great care by the Elders and the medicine people who carry the Sacred Trusts, so that no harm may come to people through ignorance and misuse of these powerful forces."
"Treat the Earth well: It was not given to you by your parents, It was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, We borrow it from our Children"
If I could make you love me, I would give you anything. I would write the most beautiful lines speaking of the most wonderful girl I have ever known, I would write you thousands of books and give them all to you if it would make you love me.
I would find a diamond mine and give you every diamond in it I would shower you in gifts from all around the world, or better yet, I would buy you the world and gift wrap it in ribbons if it would make you love me.
I would write your name in the sky with the clouds, I would bottle every star in the midnight sky and put them in your eyes while you're sleeping, if it would make you love me.
I would pour all these feelings into a jar and set it on your bedside table, I would show you that you mean everything to me, if it would make you love me.
I would kiss you a thousand times, I would whisper in your ear how beautiful you are, I would hold you close and listen you your heart beat I would make the electricity fly between our hands and share the fire that burns in my heart for you if it would make you love me.
I would walk around the world just to see your smiling face, I would swim across oceans if you were ever in need, I would climb to the tops of mountains just to shout to the sky the name of my one true love, I would die a thousand times if I could if it would make you love me. If only I could.
(Stepped away)
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