I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
BERNIE SIEGELWe are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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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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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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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.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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