Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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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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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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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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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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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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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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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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.
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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 watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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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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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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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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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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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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