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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Bernie Siegel

If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Changes Globulin Happen Kill Killer Patient Themselves
You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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Feelings Learn Mind Peace Search
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
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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Came Dream Happiness Want
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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Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either
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
You too are a work of art.
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Art Esteem Self Works
If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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Direction Health Hera Meaning Need Restore Wholeness
Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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Concerned Follow Organize Step Wife
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Desire Doctors Our Words
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
Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
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Death Everyone Fascinated People Problem Understand
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Become Feelings Graveyard Within
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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Education Loss Teacher

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