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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Bernie Siegel

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Contentment Life Love Mind
Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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Concerned Follow Organize Step Wife
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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Education Loss Teacher
You too are a work of art.
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Art Esteem Self Works
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
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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Get Goal Important Learning Ultimate Well
Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Art Beautiful Laughter
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
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Adversity Encouragement Nature
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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Anthropologist Anyone Giving Love People Something
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
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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Bodies Communicate Consciousness Experience Remain
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
We have to create perfection through love
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Create Love Perfection
By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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Fall Mean Relaxation Talking Unwind
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

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