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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... gifts of spirit that blazed the path for him to fulfillment, love, and wisdom. Indeed, Into the Magic Shop offers each of us this gift. I am in awe of Jim's skill in conveying it through the magic of this book.” –Sharon Salzberg, author ...
... gifts of spirit that blazed the path for him to fulfillment, love, and wisdom. Indeed, Into the Magic Shop offers each of us this gift. I am in awe of Jim's skill in conveying it through the magic of this book.” –Sharon Salzberg, author ...
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... gift, and one which I encourage everyone to receive with open arms. His words, and his letters—CDEFGHIJKL-deserve our full attention, our full intention, and the reward is the discovery of the power of opening one's heart to each other ...
... gift, and one which I encourage everyone to receive with open arms. His words, and his letters—CDEFGHIJKL-deserve our full attention, our full intention, and the reward is the discovery of the power of opening one's heart to each other ...
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... gifts from my father. I had spent hours and hours practicing with that thumb tip. Learning how to hold my hands so it wouldn't be obvious and how to smoothly stuff the scarf or a cigarette inside it so that it would appear to magically ...
... gifts from my father. I had spent hours and hours practicing with that thumb tip. Learning how to hold my hands so it wouldn't be obvious and how to smoothly stuff the scarf or a cigarette inside it so that it would appear to magically ...
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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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