I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
BERNIE SIEGELEducation is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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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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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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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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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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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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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 will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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