Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
BERNIE SIEGELDo 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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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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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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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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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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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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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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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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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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Our 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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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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