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.’
BERNIE SIEGELAnything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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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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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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