It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374 — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story… — 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
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
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — 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
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is… — 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
