I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
BERNIE SIEGELIf 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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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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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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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 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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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’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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