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.
BERNIE SIEGELGod 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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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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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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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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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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