I wish those brilliant words were mine but it doesn’t really matter as long as they impact you as much as they inspire me everyday…

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 centre of your own sorrow
 if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
 or have become shrivelled 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 is 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 at 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 centre 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.