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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Bernie Siegel

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,
BERNIE SIEGEL

Blessed Function Grateful Gratitude Leave
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
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
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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Anthropologist Anyone Giving Love People Something
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Fighting Kindness Religious
The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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Advice Body Book Essential Self State
You 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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Beer Health Order Ourselves Stories
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
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
Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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Beautiful Day Eye Love Remember
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
I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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Father Kids Redirection Sentiments World
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Always Matter Statistics Way
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
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

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