Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“While an impulse toward wholeness is natural and exists in everyone, each of us heals in our own way. Some people heal… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
