If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
BERNIE SIEGELBy disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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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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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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