Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
BERNIE SIEGELDoctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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 learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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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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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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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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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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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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