Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
BERNIE SIEGELI had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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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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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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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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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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