What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
BERNIE SIEGELOur Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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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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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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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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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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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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