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Bernie Siegel

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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Discouraged People Sick Surgeon Wise
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
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
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
At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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Happiness Moving Past
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
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Guarantees Order Prayer Problems
You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Define Notice Prayer Specific
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Levels Meditation Stress Visualization
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
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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Love Soul Teacher
Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Car Father Financial House Kids Matters Survive
It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Benefits Disease Healing Physical
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Giving People Stories

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