Oriah Mountain Quotes & Sayings

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

I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don't enjoy. — Daniel Willey

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. — Sarah McLachlan

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

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus. — Mike Bickle

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

The relationship between God and man are built only within a time frame. — Sunday Adelaja

Two people can be perfect for each other but if the timing's wrong it's never going to work out. Bad timing is the reason that most normal people end up single. Weirdos and creeps are single cause they are weird and creepy but people like us are single because of bad timing. — Adam Levy From Love And Sex Movie

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

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

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

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

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

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back. — Gloria Steinem

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