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.
BERNIE SIEGELI 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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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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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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