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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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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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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
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Belief traps or frees us.
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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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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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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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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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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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I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.
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The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
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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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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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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.
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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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Cancer changes your whole life.
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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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.
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