Aroa’s Reviews > Into the Magic Shop: A neurosurgeon's true story of the life-changing magic of mindfulness and compassion that inspired the hit K-pop band BTS > Status Update

“You can be good at anything you want…you just don’t know it yet”

oh, okay, motivation core

“Everyone has a story, and I have learned that, at the core of it, most of our stories are more similar than not”

“I felt an enormous amount of shame about my feelings, my anger, my sadness, all the ways my emotions seemed to take me over. I wanted to run away.”

oh, Jim. you’re such a relatable character

“The body is full of signs about what’s going inside us.”

“…but your body always knows how you are feeling.”

“I wasn’t sure I ever felt relaxed. It seemed like I was always ready to either run or fight”

“Sometimes the thing you want most is just someone to tell you anything. Because that means you are important”.

“And sometimes it’s not that you’re not important, it’s just you’re not seen because the pain of those around you makes you invisible”.

c’moooon

I love the thought: people see what they think it is, but they missed what is ACTUALLY there. Implying that when we look at something, we’re not really looking at it, but immersing in our own thoughts, problems, daily life situations…