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.
BERNIE SIEGELTake 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?
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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We have to create perfection through love
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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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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Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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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 are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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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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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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