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.
BERNIE SIEGELHaving pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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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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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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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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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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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.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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