When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
BERNIE SIEGELAs 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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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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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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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