Raymond A. Moody Jr. > Quotes

“In the sciences...if anyone advances anything new...people resist with all their might; they speak of the new view with contempt, as if it were not worth the trouble of even so much as an investigation or a regard; and thus a new truth may wait a long time before it can win its way."

Goethe”
― Raymond Moody

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There Is an Afterlife

“There are always two things that fill me with wonder—the starry heavens above me and the conscious self within me.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife

“All of these patients have experienced a floating out of their physical bodies, associated with a great sense of peace and wholeness. Most were aware of another person who helped them in their transition to another plane of existence.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Life After Life

“What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another state of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.”
― Raymond Moody MD

“Жизнь подобна тюремному заключению. Но в этом состоянии мы просто не понимаем, какой тюрьмой является для нас наше тело. Смерть подобна освобождению, выходу из тюрьмы. Это пожалуй самое лучшее с чем я мог бы ее сравнить”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr.

“SDEs, however, do provide proof beyond reasonable doubt that the soul survives bodily death. By definition they are experiences in which one or more person(s) share in a dying person’s transition.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There Is an Afterlife

“People who undergo an NDE come out of it saying that religion concerns your ability to love—not doctrines and denominations. In short, they think that God is a much more magnanimous being than they previously thought, and that denominations don’t count.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., The Light Beyond

“Il mondo in cui viviamo é solo il parto della nostra immaginazione?”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” —Pierre de Chardin”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One's Passage From This Lifetime to the Next

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One's Passage From This Lifetime to the Next

“Durante l’abbandono del corpo si prova un senso profondo di pace e di completezza. Molti avvertono la presenza di qualcuno che li aiuta nel loro passaggio a un diverso piano di esistenza. Molti vengono accolti da persone care trapassate prima di loro o da una figura religiosa di particolare importanza nella loro vita e legata, naturalmente, alla loro religione.”
― Raymond Moody, Jr.

“Dead people look different, don’t they,” said my grandmother, coming up behind me. “It’s like something has left them and gone somewhere else. Must be the soul.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife

“Carl Gustav Jung had a near-death experience; he describes it in the section entitled “Visions” in the book Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., Reflections on Life After Life

“there is a wonderful story of St. Thomas Aquinas, the eleventh century philosopher and theologian, who wrote voluminously almost until the end of his life. Then he had a vision of the light, after which he said, “All I have written is like straw.” He stopped writing and within a year he quietly and mysteriously died.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr., The Light Beyond

“I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.”
― Raymond A. Moody Jr.