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.
BERNIE SIEGELOne’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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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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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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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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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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