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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

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.
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I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.
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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 to it. Perhaps the Infinite holds us to Itself in the same way the earth does. Like gravity, if it ever stopped we would know it instantly. But it never does.
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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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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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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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Belief traps or frees us.
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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