Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rachel Naomi Remen
Rachel Naomi Remen Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Rachel Naomi Remen on Wise Famous Quotes.
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
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.
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
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.
My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.
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
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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.
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.
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.
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
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.
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.
Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.