I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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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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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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