Larry Dossey Quotes

• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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• Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

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  Feelings, Intuition, Attention

  Larry Dossey (2010). “The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better Life”, p.10, Penguin

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• Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

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  Prayer, Drug, Patient

  Larry Dossey (2011). “Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.

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  Views, Needs, Form

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• Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

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  Healing, Knowing, World

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• When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

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  Oneness, Focus, Healthy

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• Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.

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  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Impact

  Larry Dossey (2009). “Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

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  Sight, Ordinary, Treasure

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

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  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

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  Belief, Study, Hopelessness

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• The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

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  Doe, Different, Fundamentals

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• Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

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  Buddhist, Memories, Past

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.31, Harmony

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• The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

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  Believe, Science, Oneness

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• New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended.

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  Book, Self, World

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• The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time.

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  Spiritual, Bridges, Soul

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• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

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  Spiritual, Book, Men

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