Larry Dossey, MD, is an American physician and author who emphasizes the importance of prayer, spirituality, and the mind in healthcare.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.