If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
BERNIE SIEGELTraditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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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 grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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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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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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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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We have to create perfection through love
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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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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