Jill Bolte Taylor famous quotes

Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Running #Children #Garden

When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Moving #Heart #Judgement

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Mean #Caring #Mind

We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#World #Want #Moments

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Children #Emotional #Heal

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Past #Brain #Events

Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of the nervous system, do not multiply (for the most part) after we are born. That means that the majority of the neurons in your brain today are as old as you are. This longevity of the neurons partially accounts for why we feel pretty much the same on the inside at the age of 10 as we do at age 30 or 77.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Mean #Cells #Brain

For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Mistake #Mean #Emotional

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Jobs #Thinking #Brain

My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Real #Expectations #Definitions

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Voice #Silence #Mind

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

#Gratitude #Humble #Grace

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Thinking #Feelings #May

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Running #Believe #Peaceful

We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Responsibility #Emotional #Thinking

Take responsibility for the energy you bring.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Responsibility #Energy #Taking Responsibility

In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Morning #Writing #Brain

I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?'
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Opportunity #Brain #Wow

I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Beautiful #God #Soul

I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Quests #Universe

I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Responsibility #People #Energy

chaos is the first step in the creative process.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Creativity #Creative #Firsts

Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Force #Universe

Then it crosses my mind, ‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Mind #Busy #Crosses

Peace is only a thought away.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Peace

Please be responsible for the energy you bring into this space.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Space #Energy #Responsible

Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Thinking #Smell #Brain

The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Running #Choices #World

I don't have time for a stroke!
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Strokes

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Stars #Dust #Knowing