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
pain animal hands
I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
house pet reverence-for-life
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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.
love marriage opportunity
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
intuition limits favors
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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.
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.
important world
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
simple sick people
The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
body ifs your-body
If you talk to your body, it will listen.
hair giving growing
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
people giving stories
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
cancer boys doctors
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'