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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.

Bernie Siegel

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
You too are a work of art.
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Art Esteem Self Works
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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Asking Doing Learn People Tell
I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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Answer Chose Happy Loving Models
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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Enough Fool Make Through
You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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Beer Health Order Ourselves Stories
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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Discouraged People Sick Surgeon Wise
It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Benefits Disease Healing Physical
It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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Children Model Role Thinking
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
What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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Happy Heart Jobs Learn Mother Optimistic
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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Happy Jobs Work Years
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Generally People Sick Simple
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Fear Inspiration Inspired May Override
Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Actions Day Each Enhanced Guided Meaningful
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Adversity Encouragement Nature
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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Burning Differences Different Helping
I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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Believe Consciousness Dream Past
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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Acceptance Inability Love
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Hope Mean Possible Want Working
Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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Angel Mind Miracle
Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Belief Life Experience Live
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
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Forgiving Unforgivable Unlovable
Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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Minute Model Needed Perception Role Think

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