29 Quotes by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.