Bernie Siegel
Bernie Siegel
Bernie Siegelis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 October 1932
CountryUnited States of America
hero winning dragons
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.
meaningful wake-up awareness
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
doctors deny mystic
Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
people giving stories
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
body ifs your-body
If you talk to your body, it will listen.
simple sick people
The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
differences different burning
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.
children teaching use
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.
important world
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
intuition limits favors
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
love marriage opportunity
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
healing world five-senses
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.
love-life mind contentment
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.