I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
BERNIE SIEGELYou 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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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.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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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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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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