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 SIEGELAn awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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It’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.
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We have to create perfection through love
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My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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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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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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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.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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