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.
BERNIE SIEGELDoctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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.’
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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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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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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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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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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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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