A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
BERNIE SIEGELI’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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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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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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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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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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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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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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.
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