Quotes from "Kitchen Table Wisdom"

(From my original blogspot)

"Kitchen Table Wisdom" by Rachel Naomi Remen,MD, is a treasure. I will be adding quotes below as I read and underline:

"No gardener ever made a rose. When its needs are met, a rosebush will grow roses. Gardeners collaborate and provide conditions which favor this outcome. And as anyone who has ever pruned a rosebush knows, life flows through every rosebush in a slightly different way."

"Perhaps every 'victim' is really a survivor who does know it yet."

"Not everything that counts can be counted." (Quoting Dr. Denis Burkit)

"Suffering - whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or as often the case, al three - can be a doorway to transformation."

"Stories are someone's experience of the events of their life, they are not the events themselves."

"The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear... on our bookshelves."

(When speaking of how she conducts counseling) "Often I just remind people of the possibility of healing and study their own way of healing with them."