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.
BERNIE SIEGELSure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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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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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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 will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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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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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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We have to create perfection through love
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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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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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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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