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.
Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all? - Rachel Naomi Remen
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. - Rachel Naomi Remen
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
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
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…
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