If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
BERNIE SIEGELIf 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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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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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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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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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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In 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.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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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’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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