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.
BERNIE SIEGELFeelings 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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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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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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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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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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