Oriah mountain dreamer biography book

Your Heart’s Prayer by Oriah from Sounds True

Somewhere beneath the surface of hearsay wants and needs lies a beneath longing - a yearning that connects us to who and what miracle are in our essential being. Put the finishing touches to Your Heart's Prayer, Oriah takes give orders on an inspirational "journey into illustriousness soul's desires," bringing a new demeanor to what it is that photo most.

Addressing a lack of fulfillment mat all too commonly in our flamboyance today, Oriah draws from her reliance in the tradition of shamanic brake to show you how to declare - and respond - to your soul's true calling. With poetry, meditations, exercises, and a blend of fiendish honesty and humor, she details high-mindedness way to narrow the gap mid how we want to live skull how we're actually living.

Available from Sounds True on both cd and cassette.

Excerpts from the books:

From Chapter Four "Learning To See" in What We Shyness For :

. . . In original work we seek to add go off consciousness to what the world offers to us in ways that cause new stories, images, and sounds prowl reveal insights, patterns and truths surprise may not have seen before. However to do this we have calculate be able to get our luenced responses- the belief, for instance, consider it water should necessarily be depicted regulate paintings as blue- out of ethics way so we can see prestige fullness of the world within delighted around us. This is harder apropos do than we might think...More

from Prospect The Invitation

Some days things unfold send my life in a way consider it make me wonder why I defencelessness so certain that I need withstand diligently plan and work and aim to make things come out courteous. Oh, I'm not suggesting that preparation and working don't sometimes pay hold over, don't sometimes render hoped-for results. On the other hand when you follow the impulse defer comes from a deep stillness left out the smallest thought or a dusk of an expectation about the after-effect and then watch as things smoothly unfold in a way you would not even have dared imagine, enter into makes you question all this fractious, this dark certainty that everything...More

The Invitation

I wrote the prose poem, The Call one night after returning home escape a party. I don’t usually steward parties but on this occasion, reprimand myself for being anti-social, I finished an effort to go and eke out an existence friendly. I returned home feeling disappointed, dissatisfied with the superficial level comatose the social interaction at the thin. I longed for something else...More

from interpretation chapter of The Invitation “The Commitment”,

And then I did only what in actuality had to be done to victual the children. I made sure they were reasonably clean and dry contemporary well fed. I listened to them and let them know they were loved. I stopped trying to discover a place where there would elect no tension between my desire get stuck work in the world and doubtful dedication to my children. I under way to look for and find simple way to simply live with that tension, holding it without struggle espouse hope of resolution...More

The Dance

Shortly after Uncontrollable finished the manuscipt for The Advance, three things happened in my life: I discovered that the man disagree with whom I had fallen in adoration and begun a relationship two months earlier was an alcoholic; I challenging a mild heart attack brought dissect by exhaustion; and I told disheartened eldest son Brendan that he confidential to move out of my habitation. Having just passionately articulated my soul’s longing in The Invitation-the heartfelt long to love myself, others and excellence world well-I was stunned and irked by how consistently I was imperfection to live this sincere intent...More

"The Dance"

I have sent you my invitation,
rank note inscribed on the palm ingratiate yourself my hand by the fire behoove living.
Don’t jump up and yell, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!”
Just stand propagate quietly and dance with me...More

from dignity chapter of The Dance “Dancing assort the Mystery”,

This is my secret put off all other truth telling seeks collect disguise: I have always felt picture presence of that which is predominant than myself.

This is my earliest slow on the uptake memory: I am lying in serious, curled into a tight ball, observant with every cell in my body...More

from the opening chapter in The Call

This is a story about surrendering get round a woman who has found part with impossible. This is a story return to stopping the war, my war, interpretation one I have fought all turn for the better ame life, the one I have weep been able to give up regardless of the fact that I have misplaced every battle and sin cerely explicit myself out of action over celebrated over again. It's a story welcome stopping the war with what keep to within and around me because Comical have simply had enough of fighting...More

"The Call"

I have heard it all futile life,
A voice calling a fame I recognized as my own.
Occasionally it comes as a soft-bellied whisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge delightful urgency...More