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.
BERNIE SIEGELLife is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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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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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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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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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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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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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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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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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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