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Bernie Siegel Biography

Bernie Siegel (born October 14, 1932) is an American writer and retired pediatric surgeon, who writes on the relationship between the patient and the healing process. He is known for his best-selling book Love, Medicine and Miracles.

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We have to create perfection through love

Create, Love, Perfection

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Disregarding, Favors, Intuition, Limits, Science

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

Cat, Yelling, Doors, Name, Focus

What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

Jesus, Lived, Normal, Person, What If

If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need. Adults think. Kids respond with their feelings. They don't think about what you will think of their answer, so they just speak the truth-if you can get to them before junior high school age. At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.

Children, Growing Up, Kids, Speak, Time

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.

Bicycling, Icy, Jogging, Morning, Turning, Winter

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. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

Big, Father, Kids, Love, Parents, Thinking

Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!

Believe, Mind, Possibilities, Possibility

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.

Courage, Hands, Love, Mind, Survive

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.

Basis, Fight, Fighting, Kindness, Path, Religious

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

Simple, People, Sick, Truth, Generally

Do things to make your day precious.

Day, Healing, Make, Precious, Things

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Birth, Give, Giving, Ourself, Pain

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Face, Faces, Inability To Love, Love, Patient, Patients

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.

Best Love, Powerful, Stimulant, Unconditional, Unconditional Love

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be. '

Football, Response, Sunday, Team, Youd

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.

Being Yourself, Job, Jobs, Success, Tiger

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

Disease, Incurable, Incurable Disease, People, Thing

Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more problems-but not from me. My job is to accept them and love them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.

Accept, Acceptance, Children, Family, Jobs, Lives

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Order, World, Control, Thoughts

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