I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
BERNIE SIEGELIf you talk to your body, it will listen.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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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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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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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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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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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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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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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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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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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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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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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