Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen

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.

Blessing

Giving

People

A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made.

Appreciation

Death

Summer

A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. ‘Right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘success,’ ‘failure,’ . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

Expectations

Giving

Labels

A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world.

Blessing

Community

Prayer

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

Eye

Fine

Unanswered Questions

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

Art

Healing

Integrity

Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Befriending

Matter

May

Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline.

Believe

Friendship

Struggle

Belief traps or frees us.

Belief

Traps

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone’s trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Gloves

May

Messages

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Able

Acceptance

All Time

Appreciation

Art

Association

Attention

Befriending

Belief

Believe

Blessing

Born

Breathing

Broken

Bumps

Cancer

Children

Christian

Class

Community

Compassion

Competition

Courage

Danger In Life

Death

Different

Disappointment

Ego

Emotion

Expectations

Eye

Fear

Fine

Focus

Form

Friction

Friendship

Giving

Gloves

Grace

Greatness

Grief

Grows

Hands

Healing

Heart

Ideas

Inspirational

Integrity

Issues

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Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen

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.

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Belief traps or frees us.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone’s trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

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