Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
BERNIE SIEGELDo not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
BERNIE SIEGELI know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
BERNIE SIEGELIt takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
BERNIE SIEGELYou cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
BERNIE SIEGELThe irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
BERNIE SIEGELI 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 SIEGELEach day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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.
BERNIE SIEGELFor me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
BERNIE SIEGELGod is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
BERNIE SIEGELMost of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
BERNIE SIEGELIt’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
BERNIE SIEGELWe 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.
BERNIE SIEGELLove releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
BERNIE SIEGELI’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen 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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