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.
BERNIE SIEGELAs doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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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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Feelings 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.
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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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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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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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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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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 love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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