If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
BERNIE SIEGELIf you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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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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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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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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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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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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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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