Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has embedded in service a sense of difference, a certain distance. But on the deepest level, service is an experience of belonging, an experience of connection to others and to the word around us. It is this connection that gives us the power to bless the life in others. Without it, the life in them would not respond to us.
Rachel Naomi RemenIf you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
Rachel Naomi RemenWhat we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.
Rachel Naomi RemenThe wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.
Rachel Naomi RemenThere should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.
Rachel Naomi RemenIn 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.
Rachel Naomi Remen