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“There is no perfect life we are born into, and there is no escaping the awful reality of suffering. There is also no escaping the beautiful synchronicity of the heart.”

“Everyone deserves love. And everyone deserves a chance, and then a second chance.”

“We all have that gift and ability to connect. Whether through music or art or poetry, or just through listening to another. There are a million little ways for our hearts to speak to each other…”.

“It is love that heals all the wounds.”

“And it is love that holds our humanity.”

“Both our thoughts and feelings can be powerful, but one strong emotion can silence a thought…”

“The brain has its mysteries, but the heart holds secrets that I was determined to uncover.”

“Your heart is a compass, and it is your greatest gift, Jim. If you’re ever lost, you just open it up and it will always steer you in the right direction.”

“Each of us in our live experiences situations that cause pain. I call them wounds of the heart. If you ignore them, they won’t heal.”

“But sometimes when our hearts are wounded that’s when they are open. Frequently it is the wounds of the heart that give us the greatest opportunity to grow. Difficult situations. Magic gift”

“…feeling like I was missing something important. What had I come here for? What was I really looking for?”

“We both knew I had lied when I said I would call”

the sadness narrative behind this one simply freaking line is unbelievable (or I’ve gone crazy)

“We shared our bodies but didn’t let our minds or hearts complicate things.”

“…who we are today doesn’t have to be who we are tomorrow and that we are connected to everything and everyone.”

“We can die a thousand times in this lifetime, and that is one of the greatest gifts of being alive”

“Like so much of life, our beliefs are a manifestation of our life experiences”

“…I somehow knew this light was love, and it was the only thing that meant anything in this universe. I just had to reach it, and I knew that when I did, I would be one with all things…”

“This is what I had been searching for. This was the only thing I needed…”

“Sometimes rules and criteria are critically important, but oftentimes they are arbitrary and act only to sift through numbers and limit opportunity”

“Every single person, at one time in life or another, needs a chance to do something no one else believes is possible”.

“…not to let circumstance define me. Not to let other people define my worth. Yes, there was no doubt that my grades were terrible, but there was more to it than that”

this is so interesting, I love how the book pinpoints that we should not be seen by what we are in paper, but in person

“I knew I was so much more than whatever was in that file. That file wasn’t me. That file didn’t show that I worked twenty-five hours a week while carrying a full load…”

“I never had to accept the unacceptable. I had to fight for myself. I had to overcome too many obstacles…”

wise words

“Did it matter? It’s hard to celebrate a birth when you are grieving a death, but isn’t that what it all comes down to in this life? We born and we die, and everything that happens between the two can feel so random it defies logic”

“The only choice we have is in how we respond in each precious moment we are given”

“We can study every single mystery of the brain, but its greatest mystery is its ability to transform and change”

“Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. However, energy can change forms and energy can flow from one place to another. That is the gift we are each given”

“Everything didn’t have to be broken just because something was broken. I didn’t have to be broken”

you tell them, Jim

“Why did it always seem that no matter where I went, I couldn’t escape who I was and where I was from?”