Suffering Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

8 Suffering quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen provides eight short reflections on suffering, each carrying her nurturing, medical‑humanistic tone. Though the set is small, it offers a quick glimpse of how she frames pain within a journey toward wholeness.

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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…

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Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes…

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Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing…

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Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us…

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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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Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot…

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Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In…

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In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In…

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