This is what the Native American's call the place of choiceless awareness, the place where it is clear which choice is a choice for life, where we can make no other.
"Can you make the choice that's for life even when that choice is hard, when doing so means others will see you as faithless?
Can you make the choice without putting yourself or the other person - no matter who is betrayed, who is the betrayer in this moment, out of your heart?
Sometimes to choose life, we must break agreements; sometimes we must keep them although they are hard to keep." Oriah
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This post is taken from my book The Invitation, published by HarperONE, San Francisco in 1999. Happy to have the information/excerpt shared. www.oriah.org
ReplyDeleteDear Oriah.
DeleteSince June 2008 i started trading under the name Chui-Ta-Ka-Ma. Your poem/ book The Invitation has been a life line for me for the last 18 years. I have read and identified with every single word or action you have published since. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for voicing that what needs to be voiced. I first can across the term Chui-Ta-Ka-Ma in one of Craig Strete's books. The Dutch titel is; "Spiegel je gezicht aan een drenkeling in de rivier." It's a children's book. So pure so real so good. When possible I would love to meet and share some experiences and ways forward. I live in UK. Happy to travel. With warmest regards, Pascale van Dort.