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.
BERNIE SIEGELYou 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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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.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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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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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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