Bernie Siegel Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.”
-- Bernie SiegelSource : "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.
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“I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way”
-- Bernie SiegelSource : Bernie S. Siegel (2013). “The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing”, p.107, New World Library
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“Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.”
-- Bernie SiegelSource : "Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1989.
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“Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.”
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“Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.”
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“When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.”
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“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”
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“Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.”
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“Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.”
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“Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.”
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“God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.”
-- Bernie SiegelSource : "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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“We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.”
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“Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.”
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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. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.”
-- Bernie SiegelSource : Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.92, Random House
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“By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.”
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“The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick”
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“If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.”
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“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
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“For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.”
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“If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.”
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“Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.”
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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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“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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“It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.”
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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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“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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“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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“Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.”
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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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“If you talk to your body, it will listen.”
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