The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
BERNIE SIEGELWho else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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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.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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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.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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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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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.
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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If 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.
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