Bernie Siegel on awareness
Bernie Siegel143 quotes“An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.”
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Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Now 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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:
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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 SiegelBernie Siegel When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel You too are a work of art.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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Chogyam TrungpaChogyam Trungpa If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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