Rachel Naomi Remen

Everybody is a story.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Our wounds are our sources of growth.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

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Cancer changes your whole life.

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Belief traps or frees us.

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We are all born to be a blessing.

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Just Listen an excerpt

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Silence is a place of great power and healing.

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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing…

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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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Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature…

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The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

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Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to…

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I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

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The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the…

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In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is…

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“All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the…

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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.…

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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…

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Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or…

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

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Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let…

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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…

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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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“Those who don't love themselves as they are rarely love life as it is either. Most people have come to prefer certain…

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Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh…

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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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“I recall vividly the night before one of my own early surgeries, an eight-hour affair that would alter my body permanently. I…

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Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden…

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I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy…

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen