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.”
BERNIE SIEGELLove releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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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.
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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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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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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.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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