{"author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["life","love","medicine","relationship","relationships","science"],"id":14972,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["depth","life","meaning","science","value"],"id":15717,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["fear","loss","possess","possession","possessions","things"],"id":45675,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["grief","loss"],"id":84441,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["facts","knowledge","stories","story","wisdom"],"id":100072,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["answers","mystery","questions","questions-in-life","wisdom"],"id":126862,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.P 259.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["life-and-living"],"id":152722,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["inspirational"],"id":173596,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["healing","sanctuary","silence"],"id":193690,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"},{"text":"Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, 'If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time.","author":"Rachel Naomi Remen","tags":["helping","humility","respect","service"],"id":223921,"author_id":"Rachel+Naomi+Remen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}