If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
BERNIE SIEGELOne’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
-
-
You 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 SIEGEL -
Most 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 SIEGEL -
You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
BERNIE SIEGEL -
There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL