What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
BERNIE SIEGELUnconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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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?
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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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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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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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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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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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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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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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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