“ Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passi… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, ev… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life. 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
“ Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the li… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After al… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care. Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259 Rachel Naomi Remen
“ In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval. 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. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and… Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain. Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself. Rachel Naomi Remen
“ Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science. Rachel Naomi Remen
