Pain Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

8 Pain quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen’s concise remarks on pain provide a gentle, human-centered view of discomfort. In just eight lines, she offers a comforting reminder that even brief thoughts can hold depth.

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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and…

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Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have…

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Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden…

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Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us…

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One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that…

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Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let…

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How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,…

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For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From…

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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all…

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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit…

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Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

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We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that…

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All natural processes are long processes and they last.

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Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when…

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From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen…

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To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of…

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