When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
BERNIE SIEGELWhat a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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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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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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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 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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