The Call

Discovering Why You are Here
Author: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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Subject: non fiction, spiritual
My rating: 4*

About the book:
The author, a workshop and retreat leader, follows up her two earlier bestsellers (The Invitation and The Dance) with the spiritual search that is at the center of all our lives. On a 40-day vision quest that ended abruptly when she became ill, Mountain Dreamer heeded an inner voice that instructed her to go home; once there, she continued her contemplative retreat, and through meditative practices (which she shares here), she comes to acknowledge the difficulty she has with overcoming ego demands, such as her strong drive to achieve. I enjoyed The Call more than The Invitation; I would recommend it to readers interested in spiritual writing and inspirational books.

From the book:
'If you suffer at all for the world or yourself, if you spend one moment resenting, resisting, trying to hang onto, or deeply desiring to change what is within yourself or in the world right now, you are fighting with reality. And fighting reality- even or perhaps especially the reality of who and what you are- is a losing battle'.
'We will never be deeply happy or truly able to live and love fully until we find our way of living from an awareness of the deep stillness at the center of what we are. It is not so much that what we are at the deepest level wants to wake up, to be aware, to love, to create peace and truth and beauty, but that our essential nature is wakefulness, awareness, love, peace, truth and beauty. To hear the call we only need to listen.'