My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging

by Remen, Rachel Naomi

• ISBN13: 9781573228565
• ISBN10: 1573228567
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

The author shares the wisdom of her grandfather--an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the kabbalah--about the secret of life, emphasizing that the love and blessings given to others can heal our loneliness, unhappiness, and all our wounds. By the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom. Reprint.

Author Biography

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., has been counseling those with chronic and terminal illness for more than twenty years. She is cofounder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, and is currently clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Receiving Your Blessings
Blessing	p. 22
Wrestling with the Angel	p. 25
The Shell Game	p. 28
The Spice of Life	p. 31
Lot's Wife	p. 36
Having What You Have	p. 39
Letting Go	p. 41
Owning	p. 43
Keeping It Together	p. 46
At the End of the Day	p. 50
Remembering	p. 53
Getting Real	p. 56
What Matters	p. 63
Teachers Everywhere	p. 66
You Have to Be Present to Win	p. 68
Knowing the Heart	p. 70
Counting Your Chickens	p. 74
L'Chiam!	p. 77
Becoming a Blessing
Getting It Right	p. 86
The Gift	p. 88
Being Used	p. 90
Seeing the Buddha Seed	p. 93
Simply Natural	p. 96
All in the Family	p. 99
Transmission	p. 101
Bearing Witness	p. 103
The Trajectory	p. 106
Holding On to the Heart	p. 109
Lost and Found	p. 112
Finding New Eyes	p. 116
Strengthening Life	p. 120
The Friend	p. 124
Wisdom	p. 127
Finding Strength, Taking Refuge
The Meeting Place	p. 137
Pearls of Wisdom	p. 139
The Way Through	p. 141
Right Protection	p. 144
From the Heart	p. 146
Wholeness	p. 150
The Link	p. 152
Getting Clear	p. 155
Being Fed	p. 158
When Somebody Knows	p. 161
A Place of Refuge	p. 164
Coming Home	p. 166
In the Gray Zone	p. 168
Finding the Center	p. 170
In the Beginning	p. 175
Call Home	p. 177
Broken	p. 181
Promises, Promises	p. 188
The Web of Blessings
Belonging	p. 197
Lifeline	p. 201
Learning to Serve	p. 205
We Are Enough	p. 209
Finding the Connection	p. 214
Breathing In and Breathing Out	p. 216
The Gift of Service	p. 218
Fellow Travelers	p. 222
The Laying On of Hands	p. 225
Choosing Your Battles	p. 229
Heaven and Hell	p. 232
The Wise Man	p. 234
How the World Is Made	p. 237
One Little Candle	p. 239
Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts	p. 242
Befriending Life
The Game	p. 251
Knowing Life	p. 253
Loving Life	p. 256
Eggs	p. 258
Finding the Way	p. 260
When It Works	p. 263
Habit	p. 267
The Gift of New Eyes	p. 269
Making a Difference	p. 272
The Bottom Line	p. 276
Crazy Clean	p. 279
Integrity	p. 281
The Path	p. 288
A Matter of Life and Death	p. 290
The Mirror	p. 293
Who Serves?	p. 297
Beyond the American Way	p. 300
The Emperor's New Clothes	p. 303
Forgiveness	p. 306
The Gift of the Magi	p. 310
Completion	p. 314
Celebration	p. 317
Restoring the World
Lineage	p. 329
Beyond Words	p. 331
The Final Patient	p. 333
Mystery	p. 337
A Question of Style	p. 339
On the Cutting Edge	p. 343
Mary	p. 346
After Dark	p. 349
The Thirty-six	p. 352
Finding Safety	p. 356
The Way It Is	p. 359
The Presence of God	p. 363
The Friction in the System	p. 365
The Reward	p. 368
The Real Story	p. 370
Acknowledgments	p. 375
Permissions	p. 379
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