Raymond Moody Quotes

#1. The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching it down below, while feeling comfortable. They experience the feeling of being in a spiritual body that appears to be a sort of living energy field.

Raymond Moody

#2. 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 Moody

#3. I'm not afraid of death at all.

Raymond Moody

#4. Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

Raymond Moody

#5. We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Radhanath Swami

#6. The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

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

Raymond Moody

#8. The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Raymond Moody

#9. We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

Charles Sturt

#10. Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

Raymond Moody

#12. It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

America Ferrera

#13. If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

Raymond Moody

#14. 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.

Raymond Moody

#15. One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.

Grant Cardone

#16. I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Raymond Moody

#17. You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

Claudia Gray

#18. I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

Helen Mirren

#19. An affirmation to say everyday:
The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

Joyce Meyer

#20. A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

Raymond Moody

#21. Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Raymond Moody

#22. But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back.

Karen Marie Moning