The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
BERNIE SIEGELYou can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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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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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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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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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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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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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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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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