I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
BERNIE SIEGELIf 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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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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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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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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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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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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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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