Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the HeartPenguin, 2 févr. 2016 - 288 pages The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts. |
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... Ruth,” she said. “What's your name?” Her smile was so big and her eyes so brown and kind that I couldn't help but smile back at her, forgetting completely about my crooked tooth. “I'm Jim,” I said. Until that moment I was called Bob. My ...
... Ruth,” she said. “What's your name?” Her smile was so big and her eyes so brown and kind that I couldn't help but smile back at her, forgetting completely about my crooked tooth. “I'm Jim,” I said. Until that moment I was called Bob. My ...
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... Ruth. “How long have you practiced these tricks?” “A few months. Every day I practice, sometimes for a few minutes, other times an hour. But every day. It was really hard at first, even with the instruction book. But then it just gets ...
... Ruth. “How long have you practiced these tricks?” “A few months. Every day I practice, sometimes for a few minutes, other times an hour. But every day. It was really hard at first, even with the instruction book. But then it just gets ...
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... RUTH through the window of the magic shop that first day as I rode up on my orange Schwinn Sting-Ray with its white banana seat. I remember that bike so well because it was the most valuable thing I had, and I had bought it with my own ...
... RUTH through the window of the magic shop that first day as I rode up on my orange Schwinn Sting-Ray with its white banana seat. I remember that bike so well because it was the most valuable thing I had, and I had bought it with my own ...
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... magic with my dead body? I had seen a movie called Voodoo Woman a while back and suddenly I wondered if Ruth was a mad sorceress who was going to turn me into a monster she could control with her mind and then take over the world. My ...
... magic with my dead body? I had seen a movie called Voodoo Woman a while back and suddenly I wondered if Ruth was a mad sorceress who was going to turn me into a monster she could control with her mind and then take over the world. My ...
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Table des matières
1 | |
13 | |
25 | |
Thinking About Thinking | 57 |
Growing Pains | 81 |
Three Wishes | 107 |
six Apply Yourself | 133 |
Unacceptable 15 3 | 177 |
The Sultan of Nothing | 205 |
Giving Up | 221 |
The Alphabet of the Heart | 235 |
Manifesting Compassion | 251 |
The Face of God | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
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