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When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.
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The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
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Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
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When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
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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 unknown.
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Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
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Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
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Cancer changes your whole life.
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Grieving is a way of self-care.
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Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.
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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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The places in which we are seen and heard are holy places. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us the strength to go on.
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I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
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Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
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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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Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed.
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If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
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We are all born to be a blessing.
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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
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When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
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The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
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My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.
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It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.
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What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.
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All natural processes are long processes and they last.
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From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
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Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.
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I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.
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Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.— Rachel Naomi Remen
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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The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.
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Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
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Belief traps or frees us.
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It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.p 374 — Rachel Naomi Remen
Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?
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Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
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Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.
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Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.
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Everybody is a story.
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In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
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