I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
BERNIE SIEGELWhat if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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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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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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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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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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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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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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