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.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old 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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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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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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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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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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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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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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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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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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Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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