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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

Book by Rachel Naomi Remen · 3 quotes · Way, Listening, Attention

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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition Quotes

“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.”

“Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.”