I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
BERNIE SIEGELLove releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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If 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.
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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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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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