I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
BERNIE SIEGELIf you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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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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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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