We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. — Jill Bolte Taylor Child Copy Share Image
We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me. — Jill Bolte Taylor Adventure Copy Share Image
The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain. — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
Then it crosses my mind, ‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’ — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only… — Jill Bolte Taylor Ability Copy Share Image
I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
“Based upon my experience with losing my left mind, I whole-heartedly believe that the feeling of deep inner peace is neurological circuitry… — Jill Bolte Taylor Inner peace Copy Share Image
My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember,… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
“Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we… — Jill Bolte Taylor Diversity Copy Share Image
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are… — Jill Bolte Taylor Acting Copy Share Image
From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating… — Jill Bolte Taylor Ability Copy Share Image
When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
“p 16 ...although our limbic system [eg. attention, fear, rage…] functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brains Copy Share Image
It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have… — Jill Bolte Taylor Body Copy Share Image
“I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more… — Jill Bolte Taylor Help people Copy Share Image
Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this… — Jill Bolte Taylor Body Copy Share Image
For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with… — Jill Bolte Taylor Action Copy Share Image
“As information processing machines, our ability to process data about the external world begins at the level of sensory perception. Although most… — Jill Bolte Taylor Computers Copy Share Image
“Our visual field, the entire view of what we can see when we look out into the world, is divided into billions… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as “brain chatter.” It is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Our right brain perceives the big picture and recognizes that everything around us, about us, among us and within us is made… — Jill Bolte Taylor Big picture Copy Share Image
“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.” — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me. — Jill Bolte Taylor Energy Copy Share Image
My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust. — Jill Bolte Taylor Astronomy Copy Share Image
We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image