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.
BERNIE SIEGELDoctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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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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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
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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.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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