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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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Consider Miracle Shocks Vaccines Viruses
I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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Answer Chose Happy Loving Models
I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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Doctors Learn Mistake Nurse Patient
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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Always Convenience Dollar Ourselves Stores Words
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Football Sunday Team
And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Better Insurance Latter Tuberculosis Twelve
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
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
we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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Clothing Disguise God Guidance Loving Respond Work
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Define Notice Prayer Specific
An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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Awareness Meaningful Wake Up
Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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Concept Person Self Want
Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Dying Life May
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

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