God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
BERNIE SIEGELThe irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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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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