Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“: Whether we are aware of it or not, we will refine the quality of our humanity throughout the course of our… — 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
