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The Most Important Thing I Know About Love
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by Bernie Siegel, MD
I know that love is the most powerful, indestructible force and substance in the universe. For this reason, I call love the brick from which all of life is constructed. I also believe laughter is the mortar which holds the bricks together. If love weren’t a part of the creative, intelligent energy that many refer to as God, we would never have developed our ability to heal.
Why I call love a potent force or substance is because of what it can do when expressed. It is no accident we have sayings such as, “love is blind,” “kill ‘em with kindness” and “love thine enemies.” Enemies are obliterated by love and faults are not seen in loved ones. If the world were filled with lovers, there would be no wars or conflicts. In Doestoyevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor, the prisoner is set free when in response to the cruelty of the Inquisitor who is going to burn and crucify him the next morning, he gives him a kiss on his aged lips. Read Corinthians I:13 for further details about love’s qualities. |
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You Are Exceptional
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by Bernie Siegel, MD
It gives me great pleasure to know that ECaP is once again providing full-time support and resources for those most in need. Exceptional Cancer Patients, commonly known as ECaP, was named by my wife Bobbie. Back in 1978, I sent out 100 letters inviting people with cancer to join our group and learn how to live longer, healthier lives. I was shocked when less than a dozen women came to that first meeting, as I was expecting hundreds of people to show up. My wife realized those who came were exceptional people, hence the name.
They were exceptional because of their willingness to participate in their own lives, share responsibility for their health, not fear failure or worry about their ability to do imagery and drawings, share their feelings and experiences and challenge life on a regular basis, along with others who were in a similar situation. |
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