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 SIEGELWhen 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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.
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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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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