Larry Dossey > Quotes

“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.”
― Larry Dossey, The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

“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.”
― Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

“When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues”
― Larry Dossey, Space, Time, and Medicine: Foreword by Fritjof Capra

“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.”
― Larry Dossey, Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach

“I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.”
― Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

“The point of spirituality is not to separate oneself from the natural world and from others; rather, it is to make one’s own actions in the natural world and one’s interactions with others sacred,”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“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.”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“Minds, rather, are nonlocal with respect to space and time. This means that the separateness of minds is an illusion, because individual minds cannot be put in a box (or brain) and walled off from one another.”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus — what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.”
― Larry Dossey, M.D., One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

“This is a behavior in which particles, once in contact, remain linked thereafter, no matter how far they are separated. The linkage is astonishingly intimate; a change in one is correlated with a change in the other, instantly, and to the same degree. Some researchers believe that the entangled behaviors of subatomic particles may in some way underlie these distant connections in humans. This possibility is explored at length in the pioneering book Entangled Minds by Dean Radin, chief scientist at California’s Institute of Noetic Sciences. Radin suggests that we “take seriously the possibility that our minds are physically entangled with the universe …”2 Radin reviews hundreds of experiments that compellingly suggest that entanglement is more than a metaphor for how minds are linked at the human level.”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.”
― Larry Dossey, Space, Time, and Medicine: Foreword by Fritjof Capra

“In the Bible Jesus said a sentence that in my interpretation makes a very important point. Speaking to his disciples he taught, "Do not resist evil" (Matthew 5:39). Let us examine this. The resistance itself is the evil. When there is no resistance, energy is unobstructed and flows. When there is resistance, movement stops, backs up, stagnates the organism. Resistance suffocates the emotions, deadens energy, and kills feelings. Resistance is bred of caution, a thinking mechanism — thinking not in the sense of abstract thinking but of organizational thinking.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who proclaimed, “There is only one mind,” and the distinguished physicist David Bohm, who asserted, “Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one.”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“Transcendence as the only real alternative to extinction”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“As D. H. Lawrence trenchantly put it, “Hate is not the opposite of love, the opposite of love is individuality.”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“Modern medicine, as everyone knows by now, can be spectacularly successful and woefully inadequate. It alternately inspires praise and condemnation.”
― Larry Dossey

“Evil, then, is a far deeper thing than the moral codes conceive of. It is antilife. Life is dynamic, pulsating force; it is energy and consciousness, manifested in many ways; and there is no evil as such unless there is resistance to life. The resistance is the manifestation of what is called evil. Energy and consciousness in distortion create evil.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“In many societies there was the attempt to live with illness rather than to hide from it. It can be argued, of course, that such cultures did not shrink from illness and death because they could not; and that if they had been as technologically advanced as our own society they would have abhorred disease and death just as we. While there may be merit to this argument, it is more likely that many premodern societies' attitudes toward death and disease were an expression of an organic way of being, a manner of living-in-the-world where acceptance was not a function of helplessness but an expression of a deep understanding of the world.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“All manner of physical systems,” wrote Robert G. Jahn, “whether mechanical, electromagnetic, fluid dynamical, quantum mechanical, or nuclear, display capacities for synergistically interactive vibrations with similar systems, or with their environment. Coupled harmonic oscillators, all common musical instruments, radio and television circuitry, atomic components of molecules, all involve this ‘sympathetic’ resonance, from which strikingly different properties emerge than those that characterize their isolated components.”21”
― Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

“It is clear that we do not have the answers we wish in understanding health and illness, and our society is aflame with resentment at unfulfilled promises and the perceived inhumaneness of modern medicine... We are disappointed in ourselves at being taken in, at selling out, of forgetting something we once knew, of severing our organic ties with the world we live in... We cannot ignore that something vital is missing from our health — something without which health is not health at all... It is the felt organic connection to the world, the sure knowledge that the world cannot be forced into shapes that are not part of its nature. It is the willingness to take on illness as surely as we take on health, knowing in the process that either experience is meaningless without the other.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“The dark traits would be the recessive, deceptive qualities of which we generally remain unaware and which alternatingly make their unexpected appearance. Because of their sheer unpredictability we find them irritating, especially when they get us into uncomfortable situations. Frequently, they are the very thing which calls into question the image we present for public consumption and which acts as the source of doubt of our own identity. The recessive traits are also the least adapted sides of our personalities, having finally a curious tendency to 'descend' into the body where they stubbornly clamor for our attention as disease syndromes. While the dominant, overvalued traits would lead us to view ourselves as the crown of creation, our recessive inferiorities provide us every reason to doubt such a conclusion.”
― Larry Dossey, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature