Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Let us Always Remember This...


("the strength of a touch" ... my radiant
wise friend Rachel Awes)

"We all can influence the life force.
The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, 
so much a part of
a common human birthright, that we believers 
in technology pay
very little attention to them.

But they have lost NONE of their power.
People have been healing each other since the beginning.
Long before there were surgeons, psychologists, 
oncologists, and internists,
WE WERE THERE FOR EACH OTHER.

The healing of our present woundedness 
may lie in recognizing and reclaiming
the capacity we ALL have to heal each other, 
the enormous power
in the simplest of human relationships:


the STRENGTH of a TOUCH,
the BLESSING of FORGIVENESS,
the GRACE of someone else taking you 
JUST AS YOU ARE and 
finding IN YOU an unsuspected goodness.

EVERYONE ALIVE HAS SUFFERED.

It is the wisdom GAINED from our wounds and 
from our own experiences of suffering
 that make us able to heal.

Becoming expert has turned out to be LESS important than 
REMEMBERING AND TRUSTING 
the wholeness of 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."

-Kitchen Table Wisdom - Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD


(this piece was in my training materials for 
ART FOR HEALING 
that I am in the baby stages of taking part in ... 
thought it was so beautiful, I had to share.)


peaceandlove,
kolleen

12 comments:

  1. So true! So right on. My heart pounds for this share - thank you!

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  2. i love rachel naomi remen! & YOU!
    you've melted my heart with this photo,
    swingsong! looooooooove you!!
    xoxooxxoo

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  3. True true true!!!! I want to jump into that picture of you and Rachel and squeeze both of you!

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  4. oh let us not forget what power we hold in our hearts and spirit. Love, compassion and intuition can make up for the lack of 'expertise'! Thank you for a beautiful and true reminder...and this photo is so heart-warming! xokp

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  5. Thank you for sharing that beautiful quote! I believe it too. And I believe we are so lucky to have friendships of honesty and compassion. I love you sweet friend! xo

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  6. Oh, what wonderful words and such a powerful reminder! This project sounds sooo perfect for you!! I cannot wait to hear more. Thanks for sharing the beautiful words and your beautiful SELF!!!

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  7. You totally rocked it this time girl.... I am in love with the photo.... I wanna just be held by both of you ......... So wise, so much love that special time held for us all... Thank you again for the reminder of love and touch, and friendship and giving of each other. I am going to take this with me for a very long time.

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  8. oh how i love this photo of the two of you!!
    great post!

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  9. Awesome, what else there to say. :)

    Thank you Kolleen♥

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  10. I needed this reminder today, thank you.

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  11. what a beautiful post and the photo of you two....so wonderful to see. these friendships are so valuable to our soul and i'm so happy to see the love flow. xoxo!!

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  12. So beautiful and true, thank you for sharing that :)

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