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Experience Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
- Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls.…
- When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we…
- I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I…
- It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.
- For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have…
- God's presence. . . is an inner experience that never changes. It's a relationship that's there all the time, even when we're not paying attention…
- It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
- Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize…
- Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,…
- Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him,…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila