The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you. — 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
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. — 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
There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the… — 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
Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person. — 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
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention — 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
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
