Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

- 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 t…

- Rachel Naomi Remen

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 o…

- Rachel Naomi Remen

Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our wor…

- 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…

- Rachel Naomi Remen

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.

- 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…

- 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

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 yo…

- Rachel Naomi Remen