If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
BERNIE SIEGELEmbrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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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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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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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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Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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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.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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