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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.

Bernie Siegel

Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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Indifference Meet Often People
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
My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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Love Mother Opposite
Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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About Education Knowledge Survive Wisdom
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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Admire Exactly Models Next Ready Roster Time
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
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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House Life Pet Reverence
Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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Christ Feelings Jesus
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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Faces Mean Medicine
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
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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Attend Disease Everbody Mother Peace Realized War
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Alive Life Meaning Meaningful
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
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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Approached Eye Prayer Sleep
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Act Always Benefits Love People Remember
Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Enjoy Life People Trying
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
It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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Attention Heart Make Selfishness Today
I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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Believe Consciousness Dream Past
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
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Guarantees Order Prayer Problems
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Football Sunday Team
I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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Control Dark Emotions Images
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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Authentic Authenticity Perfect Success
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Challenges Opportunity Self
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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Amazed Giving Growing Hair Nausea
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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Doctors Giving People Something Up

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