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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.

Bernie Siegel

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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Blindfold Look Noise Tear World
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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Again Become Life Rediscover Rest Sleep
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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Beauty Life Nourish Physical See Sensitive Teach
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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Education Loss Teacher
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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Anthropologist Anyone Giving Love People Something
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Fighting Kindness Religious
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
We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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Children Instead Teaching Use World
Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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Concept Person Self Want
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
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
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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Levels Meditation Stress Visualization
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Always Matter Statistics Way
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Become Feelings Graveyard Within
Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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Around Doing Happier Need Possible Start
At 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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Depressed Feeling Loved Thinking Worries
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Adversity Encouragement Nature
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Football Sunday Team
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
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
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 find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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Control Dark Emotions Images
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
Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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Inspiration Mean People
Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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Indifference Meet Often People
If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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Direction Health Hera Meaning Need Restore Wholeness
People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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Doctors Expected People Somebody

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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