An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
BERNIE SIEGELGod is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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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 will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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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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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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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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