If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
BERNIE SIEGELIn this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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