Rachel Naomi Remen

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— Rachel Naomi Remen

We are all born to be a blessing.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Cancer changes your whole life.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Belief traps or frees us.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Everybody is a story.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Our wounds are our sources of growth.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

All natural processes are long processes and they last.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react,…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

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

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

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

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

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

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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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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Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these…

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We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.

— Rachel Naomi Remen