It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
BERNIE SIEGELI heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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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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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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