"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to……" — Rachel Naomi Remen
"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing."
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Rachel Naomi Remen
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97 Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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