103 Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

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.