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 may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
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
Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these… — 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
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
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention — 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
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 may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it… — 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 Image
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 Image
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. — 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 simply may… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
