Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
BERNIE SIEGELGetting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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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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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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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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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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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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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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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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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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