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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.

Bernie Siegel

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
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
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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Important Searching Wisdom World
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
Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Dying Life May
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
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Alive Life Meaning Meaningful
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Generally People Sick Simple
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
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Giving People Stories
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
Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Actions Day Each Enhanced Guided Meaningful
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
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
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

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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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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