“My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.”
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.”
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
― My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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