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We are all born to be a blessing.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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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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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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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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At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.
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In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life.
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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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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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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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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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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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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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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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The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.
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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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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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