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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

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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Five Healing Senses World
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Fear Inspiration Inspired May Override
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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Compassion Graduation Perfect Suffering Termination
Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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Indifference Meet Often People
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either
I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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Father Kids Redirection Sentiments World
Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Car Father Financial House Kids Matters Survive
If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Energy Expand Looking Need Time
God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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Day DNA Each God Guide Weather
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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Love Soul Teacher
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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Again Become Life Rediscover Rest Sleep
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Fighting Kindness Religious
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Act Always Benefits Love People Remember
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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Education Loss Teacher
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Contentment Life Love Mind
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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Approached Eye Prayer Sleep

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

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