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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?

Bernie Siegel

You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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Authentic Authenticity Perfect Success
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
Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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Minute Model Needed Perception Role Think
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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Education Loss Teacher
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
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
We have to create perfection through love
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Create Love Perfection
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Deny Doctors Mystic
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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Approached Eye Prayer Sleep
By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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Fall Mean Relaxation Talking Unwind
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Attitude Changing Life Thanksgiving
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Generally People Sick Simple
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
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
If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Body Listen Talk
Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Communicate Consciousness Words

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