9 Quotes & Sayings By Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander is an award-winning author of fourteen books, including his most recent work, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. He has been profiled in the New York Times, Newsweek, O, The Oprah Magazine, CNN, Fox News Radio, Good Morning America, Oxygen TV Network, and many other publications. Dr. Alexander was the chief anesthesiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Read more

He has lectured widely to audiences around the world.

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Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God. Eben Alexander
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So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul is able to do when they leave their bodies, and what we can all do right now through various methods of prayer or deep meditation. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal--and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God. . Eben Alexander
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Hearing my story seemed to give him a license he had been longing for someone to give him: the license to believe what he had seen with his own eyes--to KNOW that deep and comforting truth: that our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator. Eben Alexander
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Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator. Eben Alexander
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My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the Universe itself and all the beings withing it are ultimately goind. Eben Alexander
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A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. Eben Alexander
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Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. Eben Alexander
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I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess. Eben Alexander