The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
BERNIE SIEGELThoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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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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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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.
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We have to create perfection through love
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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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