Bernie Siegel Quotes

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

Fear–fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planting next year's crops...

In the past, public health officials could argue that they were protecting people from external threats: carriers of contagious diseases, fumes from the local glue factory, contaminated water, food poisoning, dangerous quack remedies. By contrast, the new enemies of public health come from within; the aim is to protect people from themselves rather than each other.

I sometimes wonder what use there is in trying to protect the West against fancied external threats when the signs of disintegration within are so striking

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.

We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.