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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.

Bernie Siegel

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Important Searching Wisdom World
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Fear Inspiration Inspired May Override
When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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Blessed Function Grateful Gratitude Leave
When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Forgiving Unforgivable Unlovable
If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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Ask Happy Mean Play Self
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Guarantees Order Prayer Problems
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Become Feelings Graveyard Within
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
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
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
I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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Believe Contribute Each Love Way
When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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Age Ask Friend Response Sunday Working
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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Animal Hands Pain
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Alive Life Meaning Meaningful

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 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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