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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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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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 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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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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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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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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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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