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Summary: The big lesson no one listens to!
Review: Hurray for Oriah! This book tells the simple but seldom lived truth! It is not until we learn to follow the thought that"GOD doesn't make junk,and I am great just as I am"do we reach our potential.Oriah's writings are like fresh air after a rainstorm!
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Summary: In reference to Me,Me,Me! (Seattle Washington)
Review: I haven't even read the book yet and still I know that on these pages of reviews it has deeply enlightened six other people and yet one (me, me, me from Seattle Washington) has only three sentences to offer with no further explanation. If her book can enlighten even one human spirit then it must deserve 5 stars from me. Her opening poem for her other book "The Invitation" in itself was quite captivating and stirring to the soul. I believe in her beautiful contributions to reading in helping anyone deepen the conscientiousness of their own spirit and soul.
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Summary: Transformational Magic
Review: I loved Oriah's first book, "The Invitation" , so I looked forward to "The Dance"...but with the fear that maybe the magic wouldn't happen again; maybe she'd said the important stuff and this would be the leftovers. I needn't have worried.I read an exerpt on her website and now I've read the whole book. It's powerful and magic, and I feel changed by it. Not because it left me with a sense of who I could be, but because it gave me a sense of the value of who I am, and of how to more fully live with that. Oriah says of her book " It is the story of my discovery that the question is not 'Why are we so infrequently the people we want to be?' but rather 'Why do we so infrequently want to be the people we really are?' ...It is the story of our struggles with those things that make it hard to remember who and what we really are, the places where is easy to become afraid in our culture." She also shows us much more of the person she is, of her background in Shamanic teaching and the workshops that she ran, and that makes the "The Dance" more powerful for me. Her stories are vivid and real, and she often tells painfully human anecdotes of mistakes she makes; no "I'm the Master who knows all" fraudulance here. It's really a wonderful book...if you're on my Christmas gift list, you probably don't need to buy a copy, but otherwise you definitely should.
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Summary: Moving
Review: I read the invitation over and over. At first I was not ready for this book. It wasn't untill I read a half of it that I fell deeply into seeing Oriah's perspective and it healed me.
Now I have read it twice, and it still is moving, and highly recommended from my point of view.
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Summary: Moving
Review: I read the invitation over and over. At first I was not ready for this book. It wasn't untill I read a half of it that I fell deeply into seeing Oriah's perspective and it healed me.
Now I have read it twice, and it still is moving, and highly recommended from my point of view.
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Summary: The Gift
Review: I received Oriah Mountain Dreamer's The Dance as a gift from a friend.?? And what a gift it is.?? It has given me the freedom to be who I am.?? I no longer have to prove myself good enough by always doing more and more.?? I do not have to be pushed by suffering in order to be the person that I want to be.?? Oriah writes, "We discover that who we really are - compassionate, gentle beings capable of being with every moment - has always been enough." The Dance has opened my eyes to a new world.?? It is a world filled with countless wonders.?? I, now, appreciate even the tiniest molecules of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide as they caress my skin.?? I am aware of precious moments of shared silence with others in an elevator or waiting room.?? Oriah has shown me how to pay attention and recognize the beauty present within my everyday life. Unlike other self-help books, The Dance does not guarantee success through a series of "proven" steps that promise to transform my life.?? I don't have to wake up two hours early everyday to exercise and meditate.?? Instead, I need to slow down and let go.?? Oriah writes, "It can bring tremendous relief and rest to let go where we are trying to hold on, trying to keep the same those things that by their very nature are constantly changing."?? The Dance was first a gift from my friend. It has multiplied into many gifts from Oriah Mountain Dreamer. Here's my gift to whoever is listening: read The Dance. You'll be glad you did. Jenni Schaefer, author of Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too(McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books - Feb '04 release)
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Summary: me, me, me
Review: I think she's a good writer but she's smug. Read between the lines. False humility is irritating.
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Summary: Inspiring Us to Accept
Review: I was comforted and inspired by Oriah's latest book. In a world where we are constantly
under pressure to achieve more and more,
her beautifully written journey into life's experiences
leads us to realize that who we are is already enough
and that this realization is what can help us
to live fully in the present,
not spending our precious time worrying about the future
or mulling over the past. A thought provoking and inspirational examination of our lives.
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Summary: "Slow Down and Let Go"
Review: I was so taken with this book that I read it in one day, staying up much past my bedtime! Oriah writes from her heart and her experiences - she acknowledges her frailties, doesn't gloss over the complications of life, and suggests skills to learn that could help a person learn to "Move to the Rhythms of Their True Self." I was captivated by the beautiful poetry, energized by her suggested meditations, and through her writing, realized just how much I need to slow down! I have not read "The Invitation," but will do so in the near future. In the meantime, "The Dance" goes with me wherever I go - to be read again and again and again.
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Summary: "Slow Down and Let Go"
Review: I was so taken with this book that I read it in one day, staying up much past my bedtime! Oriah writes from her heart and her experiences - she acknowledges her frailties, doesn't gloss over the complications of life, and suggests skills to learn that could help a person learn to "Move to the Rhythms of Their True Self." I was captivated by the beautiful poetry, energized by her suggested meditations, and through her writing, realized just how much I need to slow down! I have not read "The Invitation," but will do so in the near future. In the meantime, "The Dance" goes with me wherever I go - to be read again and again and again.
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