Bernie Siegel Quotes

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I record myself talking. I have a journal. And when I listen back, I remember why I wanted certain things. I listen to me at 16, saying 'I really wanna be on TV... I want a movie, a huge movie...' and I'm just like, 'Yo, I'm humbled. I'm living a life I imagined.'

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.