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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around. . . . Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

—Larry Dossey

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About Larry Dossey

Larry Dossey (born 1940) is a Texas internist and author who has advocated for a blending of orthodox medicine and spiritual medicine since the 1980s. Along with a small handful of other physicians (such as Bernie Siegel), he was early in orienting his patient advocacy along lines of New Age...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of the most revered spiritual teachers of this century, once asked a small group of listeners what they would say to a close friend who is about to die. Their answers dealt with assurances, words about beginnings and endings, and various gestures of compassion. Krishnamurti stopped them short. "There is only one thing you can say to give the deepest comfort," he said. "Tell him that in his death a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you go also. He will not be alone.

—Larry Dossey

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