If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
BERNIE SIEGEL
BERNIE SIEGEL
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Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel We have to create perfection through love
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Aimee MannAimee Mann Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Abram HofferAbram Hoffer A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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