When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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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When 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.
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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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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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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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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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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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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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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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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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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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We have to create perfection through love
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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