By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
BERNIE SIEGELEducation is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
-
-
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
You 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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
BERNIE SIEGEL -
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
BERNIE SIEGEL -
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
BERNIE SIEGEL







