Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
Author
Writer
Life
Complex
World
Integrity
Road
Courage
Strength
Either
Develops
Fear
Vulnerability
Sometimes
Complexes
More quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
Rachel Naomi Remen
When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.
Rachel Naomi Remen
It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Belief traps or frees us.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Just Listen an excerpt
Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Rachel Naomi Remen
