Oriah Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether 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. — Oriah Dreamer

The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream. — Oriah Dreamer

A wound not fully felt consumes from the inside. We must run very hard if we want to stay one step ahead of this pain. Exhausted, we try to bury it with drugs, alcohol, overwork, television, physical activity. We are a very creative species - we can use just about anything to anesthetize ourselves. But in doing so, we also remove ourselves from feeling the joy. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips ... Die into me or don't come to me at all. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear. — Oriah Dreamer

Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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 dreams, for the adventure of being alive. — Oriah Dreamer

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment. — Oriah Dreamer

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am? — Oriah Dreamer

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand — Oriah Dreamer

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing. — Oriah Dreamer

Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life. — Oriah Dreamer

What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold? — Oriah Dreamer

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life. — Oriah Dreamer

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness? — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears. Sometimes this courage has been buried beneath years of shaming that may have been so implicit or insidious that we breathed it in, unaware of how it separated us from knowing our own beauty of being. May we each know our own beauty & right to be today. May we drop down into the heart of the lion within & say to shame, when it rears it's head, "Not today!" — Oriah Dreamer

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." ... — Oriah Dreamer

It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own. — Oriah Dreamer

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.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout ... "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done.I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away. — Oriah Dreamer

I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer