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.
BERNIE SIEGELI love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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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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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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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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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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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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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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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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As 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.
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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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