Rachel Naomi Remen

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Over the years I have learned that "cleaning up one's act" may be far less important than consecrating one's life. It may…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

God's presence. . . is an inner experience that never changes. It's a relationship that's there all the time, even when we're…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix,…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set.…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

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

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether…

— Rachel Naomi Remen