Home / Authors / Larry Dossey

Larry Dossey Quotes

Author

Larry Dossey is a renowned author and medical doctor, born in 1940. His works primarily revolve around the intersection of medicine, science, and spirituality, exploring the roles of consciousness, intuition, and spirituality in medical practice. Dossey's books have had a wide-reaching impact in both the medical and spiritual communities.

Filter quotes by topic

All Humans Spiritual Tradition World Attitude Book Form Ifs Modern Needs

Famous Larry Dossey Quotes

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

Health Doctors Medicine Doctor Medical Profession Medical School Medical Treatment

Author:Larry Dossey

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

Humans Shows Dies Belief Results Study Overwhelming Hopelessness Futility

Author:Larry Dossey

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

Prayer Drug Patient Procedures Withholding

Book:Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

Source: Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

“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.”

Believe Humans Reason Science Religion Universe Quality Modern Tradition Oneness No Reason Abandoned Nothingness

Author:Larry Dossey

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

Life Spiritual Spirituality Path Inspirational Life Enlightenment Garden Metaphor Symbols Spiritual Wisdom Gardening Physicians Spiritual Awakening Spiritual Path

Author:Larry Dossey

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

Principles Focus Healthy Oneness Isolation Fragmentation

Author:Larry Dossey

“Prayer is an attitude of the heart.”

Heart Prayer Attitude

Author:Larry Dossey

“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.”

Ifs Feelings Natural Pay Attention Our Lives Intuition Pay Attention Each Day Flood Hunches Premonition Noticer

Book:The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better Life

Source: The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better Life

“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.”

Source: Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

“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.”

Doe Different Form Process Consciousness Awareness Source Limits Fundamentals Structure Manifest Cognitive

Author:Larry Dossey

Needs Form Views Creatures Over It Reverence Rulers Participants

Author:Larry Dossey

“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.”

World Humans Book Self Individual Achieve Highest Capable Tradition Extraordinary Dimensions New World Display Majestic Great Wisdom New Self

Author:Larry Dossey

“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.”

Men Book Spiritual Literature Practice Accounts Combination Encounters One Man Climbing Transformed Ladders Glowing Jacob Spiritual Practice Good Literature

Author:Larry Dossey

“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.”

World Soul Helping Spiritual Spirituality Modern Information Fields Concepts Tradition Tasks Endure Ancient Bridges Our Time Urgent Modern Science New Information

Author:Larry Dossey

“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.”

Needs Past Sides Memories Forget Existence Buddhist Faculty Slips Scholar Flip

Book:The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

Source: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

“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.”

World Healing Knowing Holy Disease Connected Related Who We Are Wholeness

Author:Larry Dossey

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

Ifs Want Ordinary Sight Treasure Old Saying Plain Sight Hiding In Plain Sight

Book:The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

Source: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

About the Author

Born: 1940
Known for: Author
Quotes: 17

Books & Sources

The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and HappinessRelated source material

Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of MedicineRelated source material

Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of HealingRelated source material

The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better LifeRelated source material

Similar Authors

Rick FieldsBrowse related quotes
Thaddeus GolasBrowse related quotes
Lester LevensonBrowse related quotes
Nilakanta Sri RamBrowse related quotes
Mahmud ShabistariBrowse related quotes
Andy AndrewsBrowse related quotes
Rudolf SteinerBrowse related quotes
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBrowse related quotes
John P. CongerBrowse related quotes
Dalai LamaBrowse related quotes