It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374 Rachel Naomi Remen More Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen More Quotes From Rachel Naomi Remen My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind. Rachel Naomi Remen teach mind way This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen silence simple people When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Rachel Naomi Remen offers opportunity attention I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion. Rachel Naomi Remen emotion inspirational thinking 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. Rachel Naomi Remen molecules waste hands 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 loving-life suffering self Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. Rachel Naomi Remen sunset darkness night 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. Rachel Naomi Remen powerful wisdom children Belief traps or frees us. Rachel Naomi Remen traps belief Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation. Rachel Naomi Remen western form meditation A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed. Rachel Naomi Remen exposed heal sides Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion. Rachel Naomi Remen bridges spiritual lying The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation. Rachel Naomi Remen acceptance lying way The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names. Rachel Naomi Remen woods labels names Silence is a place of great power and healing. Rachel Naomi Remen silence-is silence healing We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life. Rachel Naomi Remen letting-go life order It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul. Rachel Naomi Remen soul Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different. Rachel Naomi Remen anger different wish 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 able alive inspirational People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul." Rachel Naomi Remen soul home people
