If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
BERNIE SIEGELThe other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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We have to create perfection through love
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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.
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