Years Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

8 Years quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen’s eight quotes on Years provide a brief yet heartfelt look at her compassionate view of time. The collection is modest, but each line feels nurturing.

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Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new.…

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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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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is…

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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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Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is…

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Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when…

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I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of…

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A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift.…

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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give…

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Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may…

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A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets…

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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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