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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.

Bernie Siegel

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 watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Adversity Encouragement Nature
I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Blessed Feel Oppurtunity Others
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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Happiness Moving Past
I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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Asleep Family Mother Picture Smiling Story
It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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Children Model Role Thinking
Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Communicate Consciousness Words
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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Beauty Life Nourish Physical See Sensitive Teach
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Happy Life Long Two
Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Art Beautiful Laughter
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
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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Choice Hate Hurt Most Powerful Resemble Worse
What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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Ever Jesus Lived Normal
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
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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Inner Prayer Strength Talent
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

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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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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