The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to… — 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
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
We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the… — 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
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day… — 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
Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — 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
