Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes About Life
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We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
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From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
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Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.
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Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
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Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
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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. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
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