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The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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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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It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
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Cancer changes your whole life.
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Fear is the friction in all transitions.
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The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
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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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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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When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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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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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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Belief traps or frees us.
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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
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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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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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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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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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