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 SIEGELIf you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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And 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.
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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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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.’
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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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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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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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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