Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
BERNIE SIEGELIt’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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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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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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You too are a work of art.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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