Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
BERNIE SIEGELThe fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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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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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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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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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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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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