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When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those who are able to see us in this way and we become able to know and value ourselves.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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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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When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
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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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Fear is the friction in all transitions.
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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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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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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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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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We are all born to be a blessing.
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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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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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When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
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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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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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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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