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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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Singing
Listening
Silence
Everyone
Softly

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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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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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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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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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