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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.

Bernie Siegel

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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Learn Presents Say Supposed Tell
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
We have to create perfection through love
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Create Love Perfection
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
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
I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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Control Dark Emotions Images
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either
It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Benefits Disease Healing Physical
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Act Always Benefits Love People Remember
Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Feelings Happen Need Show Touch
Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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Again Become Life Rediscover Rest Sleep
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Contentment Life Love Mind
My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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Love Mother Opposite
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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Children Instead Teaching Use 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

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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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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