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Change Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen shares nine brief reflections on change that carry her characteristic compassion. Each line feels like a gentle reminder that growth often comes through vulnerability, offering a concise yet heartfelt look at navigating life’s twists.

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It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

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When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

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My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

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I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life…

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Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature…

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In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is…

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“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the…

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“Human being" is more a verb than a noun. Each of us is unfinished, a work in progress. Perhaps it would be…

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Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

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We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that…

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All natural processes are long processes and they last.

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Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when…

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From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen…

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