Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a Canadian poet, storyteller, and spiritual teacher facilitating personal growth and self-inquiry, most famous for her prose poem “The Invitation.”
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Anger is inevitable when our lives consist of giving in and going along; when we assume responsibility for other people’s feelings and reactions; when we relinquish our primary responsibility to proceed with our own growth and ensure the quality of our own lives; when we behave as if having a...
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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