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.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
— 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 we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Cancer changes your whole life.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Grieving is a way of self-care.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Everybody is a story. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Our wounds are our sources of growth. — Rachel Naomi Remen
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation. — Rachel Naomi Remen
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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. — 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 itself is the teacher. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Belief traps or frees us. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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 — Rachel Naomi Remen
Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all? — Rachel Naomi Remen
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. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. — Rachel Naomi Remen
I have learned that the things that divide us are far less important than those that connect us. — RachelNaomi Remen
There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying. — Rachel Naomi Remen
We are all born to be a blessing. — 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
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed. — Rachel Naomi Remen
The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows. — Rachel Naomi Remen
It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.p 374 — Rachel Naomi Remen
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed. — 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
It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul. — 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
Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different. — Rachel Naomi Remen
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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. — Rachel Naomi Remen
My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind. — Rachel Naomi Remen
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis. — Rachel Naomi Remen
What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live. — Rachel Naomi Remen
All natural processes are long processes and they last. — Rachel Naomi Remen
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