We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
BERNIE SIEGELLove and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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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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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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