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.
BERNIE SIEGELInspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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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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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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