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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

Bernie Siegel

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
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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Anything Enjoy Life People
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 had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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Home Homes Longer Men Pet
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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Being Jobs Success Yourself
It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Benefits Disease Healing Physical
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Act Always Benefits Love People Remember
Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Feelings Happen Need Show Touch
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Happy Life Long Two
If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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Ask Happy Mean Play Self
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
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
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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Bodies Communicate Consciousness Experience Remain
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Healthy People Waiting
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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Feelings Go Hold Let Mind
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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Burning Differences Different Helping
Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
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Doing Energy Need Universe
We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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Children Instead Teaching Use World
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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Altered Change Loving Person Reception
You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Bring Control Order World
Do things to make your day precious.
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Healing Precious Thing
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
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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Disease Dragon Hero Offer Through Winning
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 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

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