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?
BERNIE SIEGELEmbrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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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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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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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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