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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.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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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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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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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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If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
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Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
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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.
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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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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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Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
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We are all born to be a blessing.
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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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Cancer changes your whole life.
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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.
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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.
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