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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 (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it... I think the great danger in life is not showing up (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has embedded in service a sense of difference, a certain distance. But on the deepest level, service is an experience of belonging, an experience of connection to others and to the word around us. It is this connection that gives us the power to bless the life in others. Without it, the life in them would not respond to us (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you (Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes)
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 Quotes)