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.
BERNIE SIEGELIt is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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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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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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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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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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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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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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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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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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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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