Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
BERNIE SIEGELDon’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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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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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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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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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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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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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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