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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

Bernie Siegel

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Heal Hope Offer Potential
At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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Depressed Feeling Loved Thinking Worries
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
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Failure Liner Stop Teacher Wife
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
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
Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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Blessing Grateful Opportunity
Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Art Beautiful Laughter
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
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
In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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Harmony Health Knowledge Loss Searching View
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
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Fear Inspiration Inspired May Override
I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.
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God Heard Independent Nice One Think
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
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

If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

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