With her unusual name, Oriah Mountain Dreamer is one of my favourite authors. (She also authored ‘The Invitation’ and ‘The Dance’.)
Reading ‘The Call’ it for the second time, it’s been my companion over the last few weeks during my morning meditations and I found it (again) poignant, beautiful and inspiring.
“When we let go of wanting things to be a certain way, when we let go of our certainty that we know how things should be, we find ourselves letting go of resisting or resenting what is true in this moment, truly at peace with what is often an unpredictable and sometimes messy life.”
Sharing the most beautiful spiritual insights and truths she truly inspires a spiritual deepening, softening and awakening in a way that is simply practical. Not pretending to proverbially walk on water, Oriah shares from a place of living in the same world most of us do – with the same daily difficulties, uncertainties, pain and pleasures – and offers practical ways to be with it all:
“But I have incredible faith in your ability to know for yourself what you need to do in this moment. If you can sit with the not knowing, with the fear and confusion and uncertainty that it raises, if you can really be with it, just breathing, just being, you will know… And what is true right now – what is the best choice for you in this moment, today – may not be true, may not be what you need tomorrow. … All I know is that if you can take the time you need to find the deep stillness within and make your choice from that stillness, you cannot make the wrong choice, you can only make the choice that is the best one for you at the moment.”
Openly sharing her vulnerability and human struggle, be that with her sons growing up and leaving home, her tendency to overextend herself and do to much or someone she cares about being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease – she also reminds us that spiritually waking up, if we did want to make that choice, really only happen here, now, regardless of our circumstances:
“The is simply no place, no location or situation, that cannot be used to wake up to and live all of what and who you are, if you are willing to show up, to be present in the only place you have access to: here.”
And no matter where her journey takes her and where she takes us along on it, she always returns to the reminder that our true essence and the magic of life is always there, on matter how far removed we may feel from it:
“The truth is that even when we are too tired or afraid to see the movement of the mystery around and within us, it is always there.”
Each chapter expands on a verse of Oriah’s poem ‘The Dance’ and offers a guided meditation to ground, expand and connect.
Like all her books I highly recommend this one.
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