Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
BERNIE SIEGELIf a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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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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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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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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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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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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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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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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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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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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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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