Jill Bolte Taylor Quotes - Page 2

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.

I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And 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?"

The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

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.

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.

I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

Peace is only a thought away.

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.

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

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

Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality and all of the skill sets that goes with that.

From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.

We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.

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

I don't have time for a stroke!