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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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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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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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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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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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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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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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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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