One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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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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Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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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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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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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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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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You too are a work of art.
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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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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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