I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
BERNIE SIEGELAt that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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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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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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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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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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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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