103 Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.

I have learned that the things that divide us are far less important than those that connect us.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

Perhaps we are no longer a kind people. More and more, we seem to have become numb to the suffering of others and ashamed of our own suffering. Yet suffering is one of the universal conditions of being alive. We all suffer. We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

I am no longer as inspired by expertise as I once was. Perhaps the worth of any lifetime is measured more in kindness than in competency.

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.