I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
BERNIE SIEGELYou 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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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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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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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.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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I’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.
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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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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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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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