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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.
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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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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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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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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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We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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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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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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We are all born to be a blessing.
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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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In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
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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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