Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.
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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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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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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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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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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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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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