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
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives. — 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
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a… — 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
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
“: Whether we are aware of it or not, we will refine the quality of our humanity throughout the course of our… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix,… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“Human being" is more a verb than a noun. Each of us is unfinished, a work in progress. Perhaps it would be… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend… — 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
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift.… — 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 Image
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
