The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
BERNIE SIEGELRemember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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You too are a work of art.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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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.
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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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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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