Thank you for your brilliant/sacred insights. They were just what I needed this morning!!

Eddie

What an inspirational talk Dr. Remen gives about the art of living on Youtube! It amazes me that most of probably do know what's important in life, yet still spend our days in pursuit of unimportant things. Bravo, Dr. Remen.

I was given your book ktw by my counselor.

I was labelled with MSA. Through many searches I found out it meant I would die in five years. Well an herbalogist gave me stuff and I feel I won't die in five unless a laundry truck runs over me.

What was really damaging about the disease is not what it did to my body but what it did to my sense of self and heart. Your book is really helping me rediscover and find myself. Thank you.

Dear Dr. Remen, Thank you so much for your book "My Grandfather's Blessings". It is so inspirational. I picked it up at a tag/garage sale, I had never heard of it at the time. I believe finding it is part of the continuing Mystery of my life. I am a social worker working with indigent clients, specializing in dual diagnosis, substance abuse and child abuse. I see a lot of pain in my work but my clients always amaze me with their strength. I believe my job is a calling. The story "Being Used" describes what happens. I trust in God to help me help these people, to help them see that they are valuable people worth being alive. I try to help them be whole again. My life has not been easy so I know what it is like to be hurt and hopeless. I hope my Service will in some way help them back to their own wholeness as in the story "Belonging". You have been able to put into words the way I feel about my work. Thank you. People ask me why I do what I do. Why do I work with "crazy" people? I only see them as people who are hurting with no where to turn. The pay is bad, the lowest Master's level job there is. But this is my calling, with God's help and guidance, this is what I do. Thank you for putting it into words. I now need to get a copy of "Kitchen Table Wisdom" Carol Gokhale, LICSW West Springfield, MA

Dear Dr. Remen: Your book "Kitchen Table Wisdom" is one, if not the best, guide for my work as a psychologist, and as a person. I was so taken by your stories, your wisdom, that I want to share it with others. I ordered several of your books and I will start reading "My Grandfather's Blessings" as well. I would love to invite you to speak at our organization. Please, contact me if possible. My website is www.verajoffe.com
Thank you very much, Vera Joffe, Ph.D.

Dear Dr. Remen,
I have read both "Kitchen Table Wisdom" and "My Grandfather's Blessings." "Kitchen Table Widsom" sincerely helped heal me through a severe illness 10 years ago. It has been on my bookshelf ever since. In May of '09 my 26 yr-old son contracted mono and a severe case of pneumonia. He was in ICU for two weeks and me and his family did not know if he would pull through. The doctors were worried. At last he did and with the help of your book that I mailed to him to read to help him heal, he is well on his way to a full recovery. You are a magnifcient writer and a loving, caring woman. I thank you for your words of healing. I will keep them on my bookshelf always.

Dr. Remen
This is the first time I sit down and actually write to an author, but I just finished reading your book Kitchen Table Wisdom; I was totally enthralled.
I want to thank you for your book. I cried through most of the book but I felt such relief that I feel like a new person.
Cristina

Dear Dr. Remen, How many ways can I thank you for My Grandfather's Blessings. I cried while reading it in a prison cell in North Kern State Prison in Delano, CA. I was just beginning a 2.5+ yr sentence. I'm also back to being Jewish after 35 years of denying my spiritual nature. I shared it with many men and my wife sent in 2 extra copies. I left them all in North Kern and Avenal. My Rabbi is preparing to work with people facing the end of this life. I gave him a copy too. Now I'll have to go buy another one. Thank G-d I'm out of prison and able to begin being supportive of my family again. Thank you for helping me to choose life instead of destruction and hope instead of condemnation. You are a blessing to me! Thank you.

I have breast cancer. Mastectomy...Chemo... Reconstruction...hormonotherapy...and so on. I'm fighting. I've changed food, people, habits...I'm doing meditation, too.
You have given a help to many terminal persons. I'm happy for this and I deeply respect your mission. But I'm sad when I see that only who can afford the treatment can also afford the cost of your precious help.
I wish you all the best.
Eddusha

What you say cuts through the illusions which can be a false path to the truth that our presence with others matters most of all. You have stood up when you could easily have laid it all down. You stand for life. Thank you.

Dearest Rachel, You are such an awesome lady. To help people see life in a different way and to realize what is important is wonderful . I am a Cancer survivor and I am so greatful to be alive I thank God every day for all my blessings and all the wonderful people that are on this planet. I would love to read your books my self, as soon as i can i will purchase them and begin the journey. If you ever come to Las Vegas area we live in Henderson Nv so its nice please let me know ok until then take and cont to be a wonderful breath of fresh air Love and blessings to you and your s Cheyenne at bookilou4you@cox.net

Dear Dr. Remen,

I just finished reading your book today, Wednesday May 27, 2009, after I 1st picked it up 6 days ago. Kitchen Table Wisdom - the 2006 reprint..... and want to tell you that your book, you, have healed me in many ways and of many things. All that were in a complete state of being 'stuck' before, and thoroughly painful, filled with much sorrow. How can 'one', show gradeleteude for such a tremendous "gift"?

I was affirmed, yet again, of my "healing" abilities towards others, but this time, I clearly saw how I, myself, needed healing and how to get about it. And I did, and I have.

'This', of you and yours, is playing now a big part in saving an important relationship I have with 'those' of me and mine, from future destruct.

However, I have this one same question, that has been the root of all my inability to resolve my 'stuck' problems, still un-answered. Thoroughly, "I dont know" the answer. And eventho' I am now 'freed'(read: quite alleviated) from anxiety and sorrowful pain, the 'solutions/answers' are still painfully slow and difficult to come as a whole to me. (as has been the way since before I read your book). I feel sure that that will change for the better, but not by very much.

Hence, I am summing up the courage to ask you this question,...and please do not fear that I expect an answer. I wud be just very grateful if you had one. That is all.

I have long sought a person to whom I felt I cud trust to ask this question, and it is regarding the kind of wisdom needed towards dealing successfully with ....... stupidity. Of others and of mine as well. I know that a lot of grace is needed, but I need to feel that its "okay" to deal with stupidity... or isnt it? How do I/we do it?

Reading this book, only one thing hasnt been resolve in my mind. The part about Judgement. I feel I cant escape judging anything as I continously try to live my life out in true authenticity as best as I can. I dont know how or why to live otherwise. Is there wisdom in making judgements at all or is it all folly to do so? Not judging anything seems a bit reckless and foolhardy when I do it. Maybe there is a middle gorund somewhere. I guess I have still to look for the answers and find them when I find them.

Sorry for asking questions besides giving remarks, doctor!

But many sincerely heartfelt thanks for the other "answers" that healed me in many places and in many ways.

Re

i recently made aliyah with my family - i am a nurse in a wonderful frail care centre - i am such a huge fan of yours- i use your work now as i did in South Africa -to enhance our work and bring joy to people- thank you for your gifts- Naomi

I bought your book KITCHEN TABLE WISDOM in 2000, for no particular reason other than it "asked me to". I have shared it with friends and family in troubled times and in the early hours of this monring, laying awake, needing comfort, as my husband is in the MICU battling complications of SCLERODERMA, I thought of your book. Now is my time to find comfort in your wonderful words and thoughts. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

What an incredible gift I found in My Grandfather's Blessings! A friend gave it to me and I read it as I sat by my father's bed during the last several weeks of his life, as he battled metastatic brain cancer. The wisdom and strength I found through your words and the stories you shared gave me the inner strength to help my father in his struggle. Thank you for YOUR GIFTS to those you bless by your work, and may God continue to bless you.

Am reading Kitchen Table Wisdom and loving it - can't wait to give a copy to my sister, who is a first year medical student. Thank you!

Forget to tell: The book had never been read before I found it! My cousin earned it as a gift, but never read it till today! She's a Pediatric and shares, as well, your ideas.

God bless you a lot!

P. S.: If I have the chance to go there (USA, California), I would love to know you personally!

That's incredible the way I found your book (Kitchen Table Wisdom):
I was trying to do my final course writing in November, 2003, sitting in front of the computer when, for a moment, looking at the bookshelf, figured the book in the middle of hundreds, started to turn the pages and, finally read at the back, in it below, that the subject was "psico-oncology", exactly the one I did my specialization!!!Well, after working for almost three years volunteering in an oncology clinic and attending people at home today, unfortunately I'm out of this "querencia". Psichologist, I work in an emergency hospital as Ombudsman, listening to users and the staff, personally and by research. I do like it but miss a lot that specific kind of work. The same way I used to hear people there, I hear them today: unconditionally. Although we don't know each other personally, I do love you and I'm sure we belong the same spiritual family. I feel it reading you and finding the same thoughts I have about the same things, thoughts that'd led me to psico-oncology when I even kknew that it existed.... Ufa! That's enough! A big hug from me to you! Soraya

Thank you for the very good and important work you do!

Blessings,
Robert Schwartz
author, Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born

10 years ago my niece brought Kitchen Table Wisdom with her when she came to visit. She was reading it before she began medical school. She had to leave it with me. I shared it with a friend, and then had to buy another copy, and so on. I could only read one chapter at a time, each struck some chord, or more likely touched on some unhealed wound. Eventually, through your book, I was able to connect to some place that helped the healing to continue.
Yesterday I began My Grandfather's Blessings. I do not know how, but your words speak directly to my soul, and fan its light to burn a little brighter.

Thank you.

I come across Kitchen Table Wisdom just recently, borrowed from a friend of mine. Every time I feel something strange in this 'twitter world', technology-based, I open a chapter of your book to meet humanity. I feel like caring this book with me and openning a page everytime I lost connection with humankind.

I so enjoy your book "My Grandfather's Blessings." I am grateful for your writing. I travel frequently and would love to carry your book with me on all of my travels. Please, please, please publish the book in the Kindle format (from Amazon). That will enable me and your other readers to carry your words with us wherever we may roam. Thank you!

I came across "In the Service of Life" about 8 years ago, and rediscovered it today while going through a folder of articles that had touched me after a life changing encounter with God that saved my life. I will never be the same. Your article helped me understand my desire to serve not only God, but others, and allowed be to embrace the joy I received from our Father in Heaven.
Today I read "Pray Without Ceasing" and am equally moved, and will share your teaching with others. There is so much truth in your words - you truly have a gift that allows the Spirit to move through you and into others. Thank you for serving not only my wholeness, but the wholeness of humankind.
May God's Peace and Blessings rain upon you.

I have not (yet!) read any of your work; I came upon a short excerpt while looking for ways to help people understand, at his funeral, what made my father the fascinating, maddening and deeply connected man he was.

And then I found: “Even the Lamed-Vovniks themselves do not know for sure the role they have in the continuation of the world, and no one else knows it either. They respond to suffering, not in order to save the world but simply because the suffering of others touches them and matters to them.”

My father would certainly describe himself not as a "Just Man," but as "just a man," because he believed the quality you described can be called from all of us by cirdeletestances, as his was first by his service in 1945 as a liberator of concentration camps, and then as commander of a DP camp in Landsberg for the survivors, and later as a friend and advisor not only to the survivors, but to German youth in Landsberg struggling to understand how this can all have happened.

Your words have helped me understand him even better, and I thank you.

I received Kitchen Table Wisdom from a dear friend and mentor. It has been a year of losses for me and my heart aches. Your book touched me so deeply, each morning I look forward to another story. I am healing and feel myself growing stronger. Thank you for your gift to us.