Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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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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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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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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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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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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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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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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