An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

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• Bernie Siegel:

  I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition

• Bernie Siegel:

  Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply on

• Bernie Siegel:

  The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands th

• Bernie Siegel:

  If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, f

• Bernie Siegel:

  I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give

• Bernie Siegel:

  There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are su

• Bernie Siegel:

  If you talk to your body, it will listen.

• Bernie Siegel:

  Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not l

• Bernie Siegel:

  I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their li

• Bernie Siegel:

  What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. The