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.
BERNIE SIEGELEmbrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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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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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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