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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.

Bernie Siegel

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
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Healthy People Waiting
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.
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Fighting Kindness Religious
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
People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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Doctors Expected People Somebody
You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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Feelings Learn Mind Peace Search
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Happy Life Long Two
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
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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Father Kids Redirection Sentiments World
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
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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Faces Mean Medicine
I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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Asleep Family Mother Picture Smiling Story
I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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Father Kids Thinking
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Decision Hope Refusal
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
Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Cures Expectations Love People Two
You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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Firewarmed Improves Love Vision
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Hope Mean Possible Want Working
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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Disease Dragon Hero Offer Through Winning
Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Heal Hope Offer Potential
When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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Choice Hate Hurt Most Powerful Resemble Worse
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
It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Benefits Disease Healing Physical
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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Children Model Role Thinking

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