Bernie Siegel Quotes
I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way
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.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
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.
One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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.
One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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.
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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.
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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.
I've learned to ask people, "You're doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people." So what's made me who I am, my experience.
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.
