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Top 25 Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quotes (2025 Update)

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

2. “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 Mountain Dreamer

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Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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?”

3. “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 Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.”

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

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.”

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

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Mountain Dreamer

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

10. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature – gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present? How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?”

12. “What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature – gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present? How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all – the joy and the sorrow – I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.”

18. “If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all – the joy and the sorrow – I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “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?”

20. “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 Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “Loudly declaring our soul’s desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.”

21. “Loudly declaring our soul’s desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.”

22. “I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “I have faith in longing, wherever it finds me. And often it finds me at unpredictable and inconvenient moments. It’s like a door that suddenly opens. I am never prepared. There is no preparation for the way it takes me and leaves me, for the fierceness of the ache. It is the voice of the parts of myself I have left behind in the deals I have tried to make with life, trying to trade pieces of my dreams for promises of safety.”

23. “I have faith in longing, wherever it finds me. And often it finds me at unpredictable and inconvenient moments. It’s like a door that suddenly opens. I am never prepared. There is no preparation for the way it takes me and leaves me, for the fierceness of the ache. It is the voice of the parts of myself I have left behind in the deals I have tried to make with life, trying to trade pieces of my dreams for promises of safety.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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

24. “Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

$Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough.”$

25. “The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.”

26. “Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “But often we have inherited someone else’s view of who we are or who we should be. And sometimes, although we may ourselves hold these values, their dominance in our lives in a particular form does not allow us to live out other aspects of what we love and who we are. The deepest desires of the soul are rarely concerned with the practical details of mortgage payments, pension plans, prior commitments, past honours, or others’ opinions.”

27. “But often we have inherited someone else’s view of who we are or who we should be. And sometimes, although we may ourselves hold these values, their dominance in our lives in a particular form does not allow us to live out other aspects of what we love and who we are. The deepest desires of the soul are rarely concerned with the practical details of mortgage payments, pension plans, prior commitments, past honours, or others’ opinions.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quote: “If we have based parts of our lives on lies, or truths that no longer hold, however well intentioned or unconscious, the changes that deep intimacy evokes can look very dangerous.”

28. “If we have based parts of our lives on lies, or truths that no longer hold, however well intentioned or unconscious, the changes that deep intimacy evokes can look very dangerous.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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