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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Rachel Naomi Remen
Genre : Favorites, Inspirational
This is another all-time favorite that shifted my thinking about life and illness and death. Every illness has a story attached. A person is given a diagnosis, and the details of a person’s life makes every disease different, and every course of healing unique. A thoughtful read about our time of social media frenzy without the deep connection of listening to each other’s stories.
“Despite the awesome powers of technology, many of us still do not live very well,” says Dr. Rachel Remen. “We may need to listen to one another’s stories again.” Dr. Remen, whose unique perspective on healing comes from her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness, invites us to listen from the soul.
“As I listened while someone shared with me their concerns, first I was surprised that people with the same disease had such different stories. Later I became deeply moved by these stories, by the people and the meaning they found in their problems, by the unexpected strengths, the depths of love and devotion, the rich and human tapestry initiated by the pathology I was studying and treating. I listened to human beings who were suffering, and responding to their suffering in ways as unique as their fingerprints.”
“Everyone is a story. When I was a child, people sat around the kitchen table and told their stories. It was the way the wisdom got passed on. We don’t do that so much anymore. Real stories take time. We stopped telling stories when we started to lose that sort of time, pausing time, reflecting time, wondering time. Life rushes us along.”
“The life in us is diminished by judgment far more frequently than by disease.”
“Protecting ourselves from loss rather than grieving and healing our issues is one of the major causes of burnout.”
“People who don’t love themselves as they are rarely love life as it is either. It is natural, even instinctive to prefer comfort to pain, the familiar to the unknown. Beyond comfort lie grace, mystery, and adventure.”
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