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.
BERNIE SIEGELStudies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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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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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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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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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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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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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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We have to create perfection through love
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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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