I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
BERNIE SIEGELA surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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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.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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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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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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