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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
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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.
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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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Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.
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Cancer changes your whole life.
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Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.
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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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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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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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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us.
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People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called Body and Soul.
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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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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
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