If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
BERNIE SIEGELNow 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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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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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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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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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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