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“Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.”

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

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

This 10th anniversary edition features a compilation of stories that delve into the profound impact of sharing life experiences, fostering empathy, and strengthening human connections. more

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Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen (born February 8, 1938) is an American physician, author, and spiritual teacher. Surviving cancer as a child, she developed a unique perspective on healing and life meaning. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, she worked in conventional medicine before turning to holistic healing approaches. Her bestselling book "Kitchen Table Wisdom" (1994) shares touching stories from her medical practice and has inspired millions worldwide. Remen emphasizes the integration of body, mind, and spirit in healing, advocating for compassionate, patient-centered care that values listening and presence. more

“Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.”

People Knows Giving Different Whole Wisdom Able Growth Creativity Economy Wise Spring Seasons Winter Sickness Life And Death Decay Contradictory Impotence Wise People Seasons Of Life

Author:Sam Keen

“Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.”

Humans Wisdom Flames Human Experience Textbooks

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.”

Men Mind Ideas Wisdom Lost Lessons Demand Highest Men And Women Great Men Sluggish

Author:Jane Addams

“Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!”

Thinking Mind Wisdom Speak Refuse Chains Antiquity

Author:Girolamo Savonarola

“Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.”

Soul Wisdom School Proof Tested Susceptible Leaves Of Grass

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.”

Wisdom Pure Knowledge Of God

Book:Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople

Source: Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople

“The 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.”

Children Persons Stories Wisdom Powerful Teach Greater Educated Sage Powerful Person

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

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

“To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.”

Long Doe Wisdom Five Thousand Twenties Miles Globes Gathering Bicycle Twenty Five Weariness Thousand Miles Stationary Wisdom And Experience

Author:Paul Eldridge

“When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.”