I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
BERNIE SIEGELDisease 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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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 you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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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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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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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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