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.
BERNIE SIEGELTo me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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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.
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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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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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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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