I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
BERNIE SIEGELDo 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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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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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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