Bestselling author Rachel Naomi Remen describes the wisdom she has gained as a physician working with cancer patients—the realization that honoring mystery provides strength and comfort, healing and hope. “This is not a dead world,” she says. “Something in us wants to participate; it senses our need to wonder. It knows that to wonder is to be alive.” She emphasizes that we can all move from “helping” and “fixing” others to serving others.