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We are all born to be a blessing.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
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Cancer changes your whole life.
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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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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
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When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
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Belief traps or frees us.
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The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.
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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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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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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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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
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Just Listen an excerpt
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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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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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