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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

Bernie Siegel

Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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Blindfold Look Noise Tear World
I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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Father Kids Thinking
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either
You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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Firewarmed Improves Love Vision
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
If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Body Listen Talk
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Adversity Encouragement Nature
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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Fighting Kindness Religious
Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Dying Life May
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
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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House Life Pet Reverence
The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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Doctors Emotionally May Tired
Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Best Love Powerful Unconditional
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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Failure Liner Stop Teacher Wife
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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Clothing Disguise God Guidance Loving Respond Work
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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Changes Globulin Happen Kill Killer Patient Themselves
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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Admire Exactly Models Next Ready Roster Time
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Levels Meditation Stress Visualization
Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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Five Healing Senses World
Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Enjoy Life People Trying
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
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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Define Notice Prayer Specific
And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Better Insurance Latter Tuberculosis Twelve
You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Bring Control Order World
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Doctors Healthy Reason School

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