Latest Bernie Siegel Quotes from Interviews

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• To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It's undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn't create.

  Bernie Siegel

  Intelligent, Energy, Needs

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• So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Addiction, Feel Good

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• So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.

  Bernie Siegel

  Suicide, Children, Growing Up

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there's a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it's cancer.

  Bernie Siegel

  Dream, Cancer, Night

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives. It's the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.

  Bernie Siegel

  Dream, Believe, Past

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't lose all the sap or blood. That to me is total shock. Also that water defies the laws of physics by becoming less dense when frozen. Life really is a miracle and all the things that are been built into us through it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Cutting, Law, Blood

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

  Bernie Siegel

  Vaccines, Miracle, Viruses

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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.

  Bernie Siegel

  Who I Am, People, I've Learned

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Believe, Years, Interesting

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, People, Doe

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Disease

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I grew up caring about people and I would say again, that's what made me who I am. I became a doctor for what I like to call "healthy reasons." Not because I'm fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn't help everyone, I couldn't fix everyone.

  Bernie Siegel

  Caring, Doctors, Who I Am

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, Car

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, World

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Communication, Animal, Years

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• Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

  Bernie Siegel

  Belief, Life Experience, Live By

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• Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Alive

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• I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

  Bernie Siegel

  Home, Men, Pet

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• 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.

  Bernie Siegel

  Pain, Animal, Hands

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• Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

  Bernie Siegel

  House, Pet, Reverence For Life

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• Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Animal, Listening, Problem

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