Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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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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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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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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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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The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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