I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
BERNIE SIEGELYou still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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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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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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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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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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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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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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