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 SIEGELIf a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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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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We 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.
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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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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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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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