Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing… — 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
What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live. — 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
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
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of 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
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
Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature… — 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
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack… — 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
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
Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes… — 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
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
Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh… — 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.… — 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
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
Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy… — 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… — 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
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
Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set.… — 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
Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In… — 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
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 woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the… — 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
