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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.

Bernie Siegel

Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Deny Doctors Mystic
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
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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Father Kids Redirection Sentiments World
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Doctors Jobs Taken
I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Blessed Feel Oppurtunity Others
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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Attend Disease Everbody Mother Peace Realized War
I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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Home Homes Longer Men Pet
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
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
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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Came Dream Happiness Want
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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Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Belief Life Experience Live
I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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Believe Contribute Each Love Way
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 cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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Being Jobs Success Yourself
The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Great Immune System Tonic
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
Do things to make your day precious.
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Healing Precious Thing
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
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
If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Energy Expand Looking Need Time
Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Feelings Happen Need Show Touch
We have to create perfection through love
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Create Love Perfection
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
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Football Sunday Team
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
The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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Always Convenience Dollar Ourselves Stores Words

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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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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