When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
BERNIE SIEGELYou can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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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.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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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 watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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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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You too are a work of art.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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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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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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