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
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — 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
Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when… — 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
