Bernie S. Siegel - Peace, Love and Healing (1989)

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One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

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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.

Bernie S. Siegel

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.

Bernie S. Siegel

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

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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.

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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.

Bernie S. Siegel