I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
BERNIE SIEGELYou can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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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.”
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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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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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’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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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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If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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