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 SIEGELOur authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
-
-
If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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 SIEGEL -
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
BERNIE SIEGEL -
God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Sure, 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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
We have to create perfection through love
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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 SIEGEL -
I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Act as if you are the person you want to be.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
BERNIE SIEGEL