You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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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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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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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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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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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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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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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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