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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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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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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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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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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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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