When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
BERNIE SIEGELI 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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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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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.
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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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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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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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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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