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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Better Insurance Latter Tuberculosis Twelve
I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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Answer Chose Happy Loving Models
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Alive Life Meaning Meaningful
When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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Age Ask Friend Response Sunday Working
Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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Admire Exactly Models Next Ready Roster Time
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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Get Goal Important Learning Ultimate Well
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Failure Liner Stop Teacher Wife
Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
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Doing Energy Need Universe
I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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Father Kids Thinking
If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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Ask Happy Mean Play Self
You too are a work of art.
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Art Esteem Self Works
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Attitude Changing Life Thanksgiving
It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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Bodies Communicate Consciousness Experience Remain
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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About Education Knowledge Survive Wisdom
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Deny Doctors Mystic

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