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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.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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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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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.
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Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
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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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An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
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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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Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us.
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
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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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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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Cancer changes your whole life.
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When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
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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.
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Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
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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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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
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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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