An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
BERNIE SIEGELInspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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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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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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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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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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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 had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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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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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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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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