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Title: The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0-06-251584-5 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (59 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spiritual Journey to the Edges of Emotion to Find Your Core!
Comment: Ms. Oriah Mountain Dreamer has created a pathway beyond the comforable and the mundane into that which challenges and repels you. By addressing the edges of your personality and sensitivities, you can build on and extend your awareness and your reality in honest ways that better fit your inner self. The book is propelled from the author's emotionally intense vision of her life as expressed in this question: "Did I love well?"
Although her personal examples are simply there to help your own journey, their poignancy touched me deeply. If you are like me, you will admire the honesty and openness of her sharing. Ms. Dreamer has had two failed marriage and many failed relationships. She has had friends who experienced horrible personal setbacks. You will be seared by the pain, the truth, and the beauty in these experiences. And you will be the better for the vicarious experience.
Above all, this book is a call to have courage, courage to go beyond the comfortable into the important. Because of the examples chosen and her personal perspective, this book will probably speak more eloquently to many women than to many men.
The book is broken down into the statement of her invitation to follow her spiritual path by dealing with longing, fear, sorrow, joy, betrayal, beauty, failure, commitment, and fire to develop the deep sustenance to allows you to go to your true inner home. Each section contains personal experiences of her point, and ends with valuable meditation exercises to help you find your own "truth" in these areas.
Although the book sounds like another New Age tract, it is actually anti-New Age in many ways . . . especially in favoring emotional and physical reality over spiritual vagueness.
Here is a little of what she has to say on these subjects:
Accepting the Invitation: " . . . [Y]ou will experience, not just read about, the ache, the sorrow, the joy, the courage, the peace . . . ."
The Longing: "This is what I ask for: intimacy with myself, others, and the world . . . ."
The Fear: "We are afraid we will not be enough." " . . . [D]esire . . . brings the ecstasy of falling more deeply in love with my own life every day . . . ."
The Sorrow: "If we are strong enough to be weak enough, we are given a wound that never heals." "[That wound] is the gift that keeps the heart open."
The Joy: "The enemy of joy is the litany of 'not good enough' . . . ."
The Betrayal: "Sometimes, to choose life, we must break agreements; sometimes we must keep them although they are hard to keep."
The Beauty: " . . . [G]ratitude expands my ability to receive beauty." "It is what pulls us towards life."
The Failure: " . . . [O]ften an attempt to avoid the paralysis of shame."
The Commitment: " . . . [F]eed the children when [they] thought they could not."
The Fire: "[D]ifficult to keep our hearts open, to feel the fear and pain."
Finding Our Way Home: "Are you willing to meet yourself and not turn away from what you are?"
As you can see, Ms. Dreamer sets a high standard, but one that you will probably be proud to match.
I particularly recommend the meditations in the book. My own meditation routine repeats the same process. I found it rewarding to use different methods. Many new thoughts occurred to me as a result. It was a deeply moving experience in each case.
After you have finished your spiritual journey with this book as a guide, I suggest that you write out your own examples to match these topics from your own experience. This will make the material more accessible, especially if loving well is not your core reason for being.
Be yourself, in more ways and more fully!
Rating: 5
Summary: A devastatingly simple and profoundly wise book of hope.
Comment: This little treasure of a book takes ordinary life and elevates it to mystical status.It is one of the most moving books I have ever read and when I finished the last page I actually felt better about myself than I have in a long time. Do not misunderstand, this isn't some flaky new-age message. This book is firmly rooted in real-life but it manages to make the mundane trials of our lives seem more like a dance with the divine that connects all humans. I would hate to say anything that might make potential readers shy away from this book, and I really am not able to convey its beauty or the feeling of peace I felt while visiting the noble world illuminated by Ms. Mountain Dreamers words but please, as a favor to yourself and someone you love, find this book and read it. Your soul will thank you.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a masterpiece!
Comment: This book touched me deeply.The book was a "raw" and very honest expression of what I believe all our souls yearn to say! This book touches on the total experience of being human and of feeling our emotions fully. I am not surprised that this book was such a HUGE success for her! She has an amazing gift of expression. (Unfortunately her other books, for me were not as good as THE INVITATION).To A.Dax from Torrance,CA who posted a review about this book: are you sure you read the same INVITATION as the rest of us?I never found any "cop-out" connotations that you were going on about.This book is a masterpiece!Along with my favourite authors Eckard Tolle and Anthony de Mello, Oriah's "Invitation" is an absolute must read!
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Title: The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0062516930 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Call: Discovering Why You Are Here by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0060011947 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion by Dawna Markova ISBN: 1573241016 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Opening The Invitation : The Poem That Has Touched Lives Around the World by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0060593229 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 27 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden ISBN: 0609609017 Publisher: Harmony Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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