We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.


Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition (ed. Penguin, 2006) - ISBN: 9781101655238

Rachel Naomi Remen Quotes

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had ...

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had ...

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had ...

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had ...