Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
BERNIE SIEGELBe grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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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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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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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.
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