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In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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Writer
Listening
Silence
Everyone
Softly
Unseen
Singing

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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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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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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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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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Cancer changes your whole life.
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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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