“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.” — Jill Bolte Taylor Science 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
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
“As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.” — Jill Bolte Taylor 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 Human race 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
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 Believe Copy Share Image
Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are… — Jill Bolte Taylor Always working 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
“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
We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor Inspirational Copy Share Image
The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Choice 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
“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
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 Capable 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
“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
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in… — Jill Bolte Taylor Anger 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 Brain cells 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
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 Circumstances Copy Share Image
I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and… — Jill Bolte Taylor Available Copy Share Image
