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
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those… — 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
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
To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us… — 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 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
We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between… — 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
