When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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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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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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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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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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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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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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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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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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