103 Quotes by 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.

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.

It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch.

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

We are all born to be a blessing.

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.

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.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.