1. That your 'loved ones' love you. Unconditionally.
2. Reiterating the points raised by @Wrennie and @Chinaski above, that medical professionals know what they're doing, have all the answers, and can heal every disease and sickness. That they are humanitarian, compassionate and act in your best interests.
3. I was told that, if I were to leave my religion, the powers that be would engineer the course of events in my life so that at some point I'll come crawling back. Tomorrow or many years down the line, at the end of the day I will return to the faith.
4. Being raised Buddhist, that we are extremely fortunate to be born into human life. The Buddhist parable of the blind turtle illustrates this. Suppose there is a blind turtle dwelling at the bottom of the ocean that surfaces just once every hundred years, and a yoke floats on the vast ocean. The chances of being born human after countless non-human incarnations is even more improbable than it takes for said turtle to surface at the right time and in the right place for it to put its head through the yoke. Knowing this, you should use your lifetime wisely, and dedicate yourself to the cultivation of virtue. To me, not only did sayings like the above feel like a guilt trip, but they also made me feel both helpless and hopeless about circumstances beyond my control. Only recently did it come to me that they can, and have been, used by those in power as yet another form spiritual gaslighting.
5. That what goes around comes around, and you will reap what you sow. Misfortune is seen as the ripened fruit of sinful karma, in which you suffer to pay off your karmic debt.
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