I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
BERNIE SIEGELThe doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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We have to create perfection through love
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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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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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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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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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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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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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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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