Rachel Remen
Rachel Remen
certainly fellow human trained
I was certainly not trained to be a fellow human being.
avoiding certain change cheat comfort compassion deny denying greatness hidden intimacy left ourselves pain people plain prefer reject rejecting risk seeking strength suffering ugly unaware value wrapped
Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.
human imagined realized touched
He realized that he was the first human being she'd ever seen. He was touched in a way that he hadn't imagined he could be.