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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... knew were used for stage magic, and large bookcases filled with books about magic and illusion. There was even a mini guillotine in the corner and two green boxes that you could use to saw a person in half. An older woman with wavy ...
... knew were used for stage magic, and large bookcases filled with books about magic and illusion. There was even a mini guillotine in the corner and two green boxes that you could use to saw a person in half. An older woman with wavy ...
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... knew she was staring, it wasn't in the same way the guy who owns the market next to our apartment would stare at you when you were in his store. I'm pretty sure he thought I was going to steal something, and every time I went in there I ...
... knew she was staring, it wasn't in the same way the guy who owns the market next to our apartment would stare at you when you were in his store. I'm pretty sure he thought I was going to steal something, and every time I went in there I ...
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... knew if Ruth knew the truth about my family and who I was, she wouldn't think I was special at all. I didn't know if I believed she could teach me to make things appear out of nowhere, but I wanted to have more conversations with her ...
... knew if Ruth knew the truth about my family and who I was, she wouldn't think I was special at all. I didn't know if I believed she could teach me to make things appear out of nowhere, but I wanted to have more conversations with her ...
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... knew if I got home earlier there would often be a fight in progress or some other event that made me wish I were somewhere else, someone else. Sometimes the thing you want most is just someone to tell you, tell you anything. Because ...
... knew if I got home earlier there would often be a fight in progress or some other event that made me wish I were somewhere else, someone else. Sometimes the thing you want most is just someone to tell you, tell you anything. Because ...
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... knew it was partly from riding there so quickly and partly because I wasn't sure what was going to happen. And I didn't know why it was happening. It had sounded like a good idea the day before, and this morning it had seemed better ...
... knew it was partly from riding there so quickly and partly because I wasn't sure what was going to happen. And I didn't know why it was happening. It had sounded like a good idea the day before, and this morning it had seemed better ...
Table des matières
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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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