My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging
by Remen, Rachel NaomiEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Riverhead Trade
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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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