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. 你靠什麼謀生,我不感興趣。 我只想知道,你渴望什麼? 你是否有勇氣追逐你心中的渴望。 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. 你的年齡,我不感興趣。 我只想知道,你是否願意冒險, 哪怕看起來像傻瓜的危險, 為了愛,為了夢想,為了生命的奇遇。 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. 什麼星球跟你的月亮平行,我不感興趣。 我只想知道你是否看到你憂傷的核心, 生命的背叛,是敞開了你的心, 還是令你變得枯萎,因為害怕更多的傷痛。 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. 我想知道你是否能跟痛苦共處, 無論是你的 或是我的, 而不想去隱藏它、消除它、修復它。 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. 你跟我說的是否真誠, 我不感興趣。 我只想知道你是否能對自己真誠, 哪怕這樣會讓人失望。 你是否能忍受背叛的指控,而不背叛自己的靈魂。 我想要知道你是否能夠忠實而足以信賴。 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.” 我想要知道你是否能跟失敗共存, 無論是你的還是我的, 還能站在湖岸, 對著滿月的銀光吶喊 「放馬過來吧!」 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. 我對你認識誰,或如何來到這裡並不感興趣。 我只想知道你是否會和我一起站在火堆中央而不寒顫退縮。 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. 你在哪裡學習?學過什麼?跟誰學?我都不感興趣。 我只想要知道, 當所有的一切都消逝時, 是什麼在你的內心,支撐著你。 I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. 我只想知道, 你是否能和自己相處。 在任意空虛的時刻裡, 你是否真心的喜歡做自己的伴侶。 By Oriah © Mountain Dreaming, from the book The Invitation published by HarperONE, San Francisco Honesty, 9x11", 2016, ballpoint pen on graph paper #YuHsinWu