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My grandfather's blessings : stories of strength, refuge, and belonging / Rachel Naomi Remen.

Title
My grandfather's blessings : stories of strength, refuge, and belonging / Rachel Naomi Remen.
Author
Remen, Rachel Naomi
Publication
New York : Riverhead Books, 2001.

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Description
380 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive." "Dr. Remen's grandfather, an Orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection and knew that everyone belonged to him, and that he belonged to everyone. He taught her that blessing one another is what fills our emptiness, heals our loneliness, and connects us more deeply to life." "Life has given us many more blessings than we have allowed ourselves to receive. My Grandfather's Blessings is about how we can recognize and receive our blessings and bless the life in others. Serving others heals us. Through our service we will discover our own wholeness -- and the way to restore hidden wholeness in the world. Book jacket."--Jacket
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • Personal Narrative
  • Popular Work
  • Personal narratives
  • Anecdotes.
  • Récits personnels.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Receiving Your Blessings -- Blessing -- Wrestling with the Angel -- Shell Game -- Spice of Life -- Lot's Wife -- Having What You Have -- Letting Go -- Owning -- Keeping It Together -- At the End of the Day -- Remembering -- Getting Real -- What Matters -- Teachers Everywhere -- You Have to Be Present to Win -- Knowing the Heart -- Counting Your Chickens -- L'Chiam! -- II. Becoming a Blessing -- Getting It Right -- Gift -- Being Used -- Seeing the Buddha Seed -- Simply Natural -- All in the Family -- Transmission -- Bearing Witness -- Trajectory -- Holding On to the Heart -- Lost and Found -- Finding New Eyes -- Strengthening Life -- Friend -- Wisdom -- III. Finding Strength, Taking Refuge -- Meeting Place -- Pearls of Wisdom -- Way Through -- Right Protection -- From the Heart -- Wholeness -- Link -- Getting Clear -- Being Fed -- When Somebody Knows -- Place of Refuge -- Coming Home -- In the Gray Zone -- Finding the Center -- In the Beginning -- Call Home -- Broken -- Promises, Promises -- IV. Web of Blessings -- Belonging -- Lifeline -- Learning to Serve -- We Are Enough -- Finding the Connection -- Breathing In and Breathing Out -- Gift of Service -- Fellow Travelers -- Laying On of Hands -- Choosing Your Battles -- Heaven and Hell -- Wise Man -- How the World Is Made -- One Little Candle -- Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts -- V. Befriending Life -- Game -- Knowing Life -- Loving Life -- Eggs -- Finding the Way -- When It Works -- Habit -- Gift of New Eyes -- Making a Difference -- Bottom Line -- Crazy Clean -- Integrity -- Path -- Matter of Life and Death -- Mirror -- Who Serves? -- Beyond the American Way -- Emperor's New Clothes -- Forgiveness -- Gift of the Magi -- Completion -- Celebration -- VI. Restoring the World -- Lineage -- Beyond Words -- Final Patient -- Mystery -- Question of Style -- On the Cutting Edge -- Mary -- After Dark -- Thirty-six -- Finding Safety -- Way It Is -- Presence of God -- Friction in the System -- Reward -- Real Story.
ISBN
  • 1573228567
  • 9781573228565
LCCN
2001005538
OCLC
  • 46838648
  • SCSB-12914719
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library