It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
BERNIE SIEGELYou still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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