Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
BERNIE SIEGELFeel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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:
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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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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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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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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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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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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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We have to create perfection through love
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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.’
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