It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374 — 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
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
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval. — 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
Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have… — 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 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
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
Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot… — 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
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
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
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
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
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
