By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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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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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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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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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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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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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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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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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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