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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Bernie Siegel

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Hope Mean Possible Want Working
You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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Beer Health Order Ourselves Stories
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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Firewarmed Improves Love Vision
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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Learn Presents Say Supposed Tell
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
What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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Happy Heart Jobs Learn Mother Optimistic
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
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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Authority Children Figure Particularly Pattern Way
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Failure Liner Stop Teacher Wife
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Challenges Opportunity Self
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Levels Meditation Stress Visualization
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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Blessed Function Grateful Gratitude Leave
You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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Cancer Dream Night People Present Well
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
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

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