Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
BERNIE SIEGELIf God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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We have to create perfection through love
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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