Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
BERNIE SIEGELAnd that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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 none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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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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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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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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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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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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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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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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