What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
BERNIE SIEGELI wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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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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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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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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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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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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