Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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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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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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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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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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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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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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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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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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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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