The Call - by Oriah (Paperback)

About the Book

The final book in the bestselling trilogy that began with "The Invitation" opens readers to finding and living the meaning and purpose--the unique calling--at the center of their lives.

Book Synopsis

The final book in Oriah Mountain Dreamer's bestselling trilogy opens us to finding and consciously living the meaning and purpose--the unique calling--at the center of our lives

In The Invitation, visionary writer and teacher Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote about what we long for. In The Dance, her second book, she explored how to live this longing. Now, in The Call, she shares with us her struggle with and discovery of “why”--why we are here and why we must each undertake the journey from longing to living fully and deeply in the world.

Like her previous bestsellers, The Call is filled with moving stories and wisdom born of experience, an intimate and insightful exploration of Oriah's journey to heed her own call, which comes in often unexpected forms. Readers journey with Oriah into the recognition that to be fully human is to consciously live what we are--an echo of the sacred Presence that is beyond all thought--through the messy reality of who we are.

Gently challenging and persistently practical, Oriah guides the reader in living every day awake to the essence of who we are, showing us how to find and embody the meaning in our lives in the unique way we are each called to do so. The Call takes us on a journey into living a deeply spiritual and wholly human life.

From the Back Cover

The Call exhorts us to heed the voice inside us, calling us to discover and to live fully our true selves and our heart's desires - finding our own unique calling, not in the expectations of others and in the outside world, but deep within ourselves.

I have heard it all my life
A voice calling a name I recognized as myown.
Sometimes it comes as a soft-belliedwhisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.
But always it says: Wake up my love. Youare walking asleep.
There's no safety in that!

The Call, like Oriah's previous books, starts with an evocative, richly textured prose poem. In it, Oriah challenges readers to discard what they know of themselves as seen through other people and the world around them, and to delve deep into their own selves to find who they truly are. She persuades the reader that there is nothing as essential as what you believe yourself to be, and that it's not necessary to search for meaning in other people and the world's agendas; just be confident of your own distinct gifts, challenges and dreams.

Review Quotes

"Once in a great while a book is like a living being. It takes up residence inside you, and speaks with a voice that is strong and true, long after you've closed the cover. It's wisdom becomes your own, a gentle and profound awakening that keeps coming to you, again and again. The Call is one of those rare and precious books. It is a gift to us all from a wise, funny and honest teacher who knows the territory of the human heart and soul like few others." - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of A Woman's Journey to God and Inner Peace for Busy Women
"Fiercely, corageously, honestly, The Call reaches down to the tender heart of what it means to be human." - Roger Housden, author of 10 Poems to Change Your Life and 10 Poems to Open Your Heart
"This book will answer many prayers and cure our absence of light." - Daniel Ladinsky, best-selling author of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz
"Oriah has the gift of being able to slip inside the soul's secret and brings its desire to voice. The Call is at once fierce in its urgency for Becoming and yet so patient in its compassion for our frailty. Her grounding intuition is: if you attend to your depths, they will guide, shelter and transform you. The Call is a gift of healing and renewal. Enjoy it!" - John O'Donohue, author of international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes
"The Call is a gift of healing and renewal. Enjoy it!" - John O'Donohue, author of international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes