Review: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R. DotyMy rating: 0 of 5 stars
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:32:18 PM
Now I know that the brain can be trained to improve one’s
focus and attention and also to not respond to the ongoing dialogue in our head
that distracts us from making clear and useful decisions.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:35:51 PM
You’re so used to it you probably don’t even notice that the
radio in your mind is playing at full volume, and it never gets turned off.”
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:36:15 PM
“This voice in your head is judging every second of your
life as either good or bad. And your mind responds to what the voice is telling
you. As if it actually knew you
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:36:29 PM
“The problem is that often your response isn’t one that is
necessarily good for you.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:36:45 PM
“No. You are not the voice in your head. You, the real you,
is the person who is listening to the deejay.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:37:36 PM
You can’t trust the voice in your head—the one that’s
talking to you all the time. It’s more often wrong than right. You can think of
this trick as learning to turn the volume way down and eventually turning it
off altogether. Then you’ll understand what I’m talking about.”
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:40:10 PM
“Keep focusing on your breath. If the deejay starts talking,
just stop listening and go back
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:42:27 PM
“You can do anything,
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:43:40 PM
You just have to show it who is in control.
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:57:56 PM
As a surgeon I have often heard my patients describe how
they experience pain more acutely at night—it’s not that their pain is worse at
night, it’s just that there’s no distraction. The mind gets quiet and the pain
that was there all day seems louder. It’s the same reason why our eyes can fly
open at 2 A.M., and every anxiety about the future or regret about the past
will play itself out in the dark of night.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, June 26, 2023 5:58:56 PM
She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different
past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over
which I had no control.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 12:08:48 AM
I can operate on the brain but not the mind, but operating
on the brain can forever alter the mind. It’s a dilemma of causality—
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 11:51:44 AM
“Jim, everyone has situations in their life that cause them
pain.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 11:53:36 AM
“It’s the same with the wounds in our heart. We need to give
them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise the wound continues to
cause us pain. Sometimes for a very long time. We’re all going to get hurt.
That’s just the way it is. But here’s the trick about the things that hurt us
and cause us pain—they also serve an amazing purpose. When our hearts are
wounded that’s when they open. We grow through pain. We grow through difficult
situations. That’s why you have to embrace each and every difficult thing in
your life. I feel sorry for people who have no problems. Who never have to go
through anything difficult. They miss out on the gift. They miss out on the
magic.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:36:57 PM
“We all misunderstand. Each other. Ourselves. Situations.
It’s a good lesson to learn—that not everything is about us. I think I need to
learn that same lesson when it comes to my grandson.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:38:17 PM
She explained to me that so often the conversation going on
in all of our heads is one that is hypercritical and negative. One that
frequently causes us to react in a way that isn’t in our best interest. One
that causes us to relive events over and over or to wish for things that might
be or should be. So much so that we aren’t really here a lot of the time.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:39:15 PM
Over and over I said repeatedly, I am good, it’s not my
fault, I’m a good person.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:39:34 PM
“I am worthy. I am loved. I am
cared for. I care for others. I choose only good for myself. I choose only good
for others. I love myself. I love others. I open my heart. My heart is open.”
Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:50:58 PM
“Jim, oftentimes those who hurt people are those who hurt
the most.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:52:20 PM
realize that when I was angry with someone, it was usually
because I was hurting on the inside. I was angry at myself for something. I had
never realized that before.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:52:42 PM
If you can heal your own wounds, you don’t hurt anymore and
you don’t hurt others
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:56:28 PM
Research shows the heart to be an organ of intelligence,
with its own profound influence not only from our brain but on our brain, our
emotions, our reasoning, and our choices. Rather than passively waiting for
instructions from the brain, the heart not only thinks for itself but sends out
signals to the rest of the body. The part of the vagus nerve that arises in the
brainstem and that has immense innervation in the heart and other organs is
part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:59:44 PM
Stress, anxiety, chronic fear, negative thinking can all
cause blood to pound into the heart with extra force. It’s the body’s
equivalent of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:00:32 PM
Stress, anxiety, chronic fear, negative thinking can all
cause blood to pound into the heart with extra force. It’s the body’s
equivalent of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Over and over again.
Eventually, somebody is going to get trampled.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:02:37 PM
Ruth was improving my ability to regulate my emotions,
increasing my empathy, my social connectedness, and making me more optimistic.
She changed how I perceived myself and how I perceived the world. And that
changed absolutely everything.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:03:26 PM
By learning to observe my thoughts, I was learning to
separate myself from them.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:05:53 PM
You need to understand that what you think you want isn’t
always what’s best for you and others.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:06:09 PM
otherwise if you don’t really know what you want and you get
what you think you want, you’re going to end up getting what you don’t want.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:07:25 PM
But also please remember such tricks have power
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:09:04 PM
But I was young, and I was hungry, and when she showed me
how to train my mind she opened up the whole world to me, and I attacked it
like it was the enemy.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:09:39 PM
The head is powerful, but it can only get us what we really
want if we open our heart first.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:10:26 PM
Experiencing pain can be a gift if one learns from the pain.
But when one needlessly causes pain and suffering, not only to oneself but to
others, it is neither ennobling nor fair to those who are sharing the path with
you. Ruth taught me some very powerful magic, and I could have saved myself,
and many others, from a lot of pain and suffering if I had paid more attention
to what Ruth was saying that day.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 6:12:55 PM
Understand that oftentimes one’s actions are a manifestation
of one’s pain. See them as yourself.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 11:33:48 AM
“But I will tell you one of the most important secrets,”
said Neil. “You have to believe in your own magic.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 11:36:09 AM
A real magician transports the audience to a world where
anything is possible, everything is real, and the unbelievable becomes
believable.”
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Unknown (Jan Vid Brestovac)
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July 5, 2023 12:04:00 PM
Da ne izpolnjujejo predpisanih standardov ženskosti, da
imajo prevelike zadnjice in lase, da so preveč glasne, vročekrvne ali preveč
ostre do svojih moških - da niso le "kastracijske", ampak tudi moške.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 10:54:55 PM
You can have anything you want by visualizing that it’s
already yours. It’s that simple and that hard, all at the same time.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 10:56:20 PM
there is an old saying: ‘When the student is ready, the
teacher appears.’ You were the one who was ready.”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:01:59 PM
“Don’t count yourself short”
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:04:22 PM
I closed my eyes again and thought, I intend to be a doctor.
I clearly intend to be a doctor. I am intending to be a doctor, clearly. I
wasn’t sure which one was better so I thought them all.
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Слово Роду - Slovo Rodu (Аћимовић - Acimovic, ВЈ. - VJ.)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:19:43 PM
„Слово Роду“, као свијетлост изгубљенима, нада клонулима и
снага слабима, пружа скуп размишљања о кључним борбама које као појединци током
живота и као Род кроз миленијуме водимо.
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Слово Роду - Slovo Rodu (Аћимовић - Acimovic, ВЈ. - VJ.)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:25:11 PM
Све док је жељеза, биће и рђе, док је болешљивог биће и
куге, док је кукавице биће и бјега, докле је похлепе, мржње и зависти биће и
злобе, докле пексинлука дотле и шуге.
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Слово Роду - Slovo Rodu (Аћимовић - Acimovic, ВЈ. - VJ.)
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:26:58 PM
али нека вам читајућ са горким укусом у грлу само једно буде
на уму, што је терет тежи изњет га, подвиг је већи.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Friday, July 7, 2023 10:38:51 PM
And continue to believe that the impossible was now
possible.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:46:10 AM
Often the impact of others’ choices can be deeply wounding
and leave lasting scars.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:48:13 AM
Another mystery of the brain is that it will always choose
what is familiar over what is unfamiliar. By visualizing my own future success,
I was making this success familiar to my brain. Intention is a funny thing, and
whatever the brain puts its intention on is what it sees.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:48:35 AM
are changing their physiology and creating neural patterns
in their brain that actually enable their muscles to perform in new ways, I was
using visual imagery to create new neural pathways in my own brain. The brain
doesn’t distinguish between an experience that is intensely imagined and an
experience that is real.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:49:21 AM
“You get what you expect”
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:59:09 AM
Why did it always seem that no matter where I went, I
couldn’t escape who I was and where I was from?
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 12:00:08 PM
Ruth once telling me that just because something is broken
doesn’t mean everything is broken.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 12:00:52 PM
was poor. My father was an alcoholic. But I wasn’t broken.
Everything didn’t have to be broken just because something was broken. I didn’t
have to be broken.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 12:01:08 PM
My father had his path, and I had my path.
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:01:41 PM
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. However, energy
can change forms, and energy can flow from one place to another. That is the
gift we are each given.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:02:31 PM
We can study every single mystery of the brain, but its
greatest mystery is its ability to transform and change.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:03:54 PM
When our brain changes, we change. That is a truth proven by
science. But an even greater truth is that when our heart changes, everything
changes. And that change is not only in how we see the world but in how the
world sees us. And in how the world responds to us.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:13:52 PM
The only choice we have is in how we respond in each precious
moment we are given.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:23:17 PM
Unfortunately, so many people allow others to decide what
they can or cannot do.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:25:44 PM
She had also told me that I never had to accept the
unacceptable.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:29:40 PM
Ruth taught me not to let circumstance define me. Not to let
other people define my worth.
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:30:43 PM
In eighth grade I met a woman who taught me that anything is
possible if you believe in yourself, if you stop the voice in your head that
tells you who you are is based on who you were.
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:32:05 PM
You can do it, Jim, she said. You can do anything. You have
the magic inside you. Let it out.
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Monday, July 10, 2023 10:55:02 PM
Each of us has a path. I had to take mine.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Monday, July 10, 2023 11:06:18 PM
Was I the guy Oscar Wilde described, the one “who knew the
cost of everything and the value of nothing”?
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Слово Роду - Slovo Rodu (Аћимовић - Acimovic, ВЈ. - VJ.)
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Friday, July 14, 2023 11:23:38 PM
Дјецо, браћо и сестре, не очајавајте и не предајте се ма
како ситуација била страшна и наизглед безизлазна. Све што се збило требало се
збити и све што долази мора да дође и прође. На нама је избор, како ћемо
поучени оним што је било дочекати оно што ће да буде.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023 10:16:35 AM
We can die a thousand times in this lifetime, and that is
one of the greatest gifts of being alive.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023 10:17:41 AM
it informed my absolute belief that who we are today doesn’t
have to be who we are tomorrow and that we are connected to everything and
everyone.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Friday, July 21, 2023 11:00:14 PM
and what you think you want isn’t always what is best for
you.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 7:09:09 AM
Each of us in our lives experiences situations that cause
pain. I call them wounds of the heart. If you ignore them, they won’t heal. But
sometimes when our hearts are wounded that’s when they are open. Frequently it
is the wounds of the heart that give us the greatest opportunity to grow.
Difficult situations. Magic gift.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 7:09:33 AM
“Your heart is a compass, and it is your greatest gift, Jim.
If you’re ever lost, you just open it up, and it will always steer you in the
right direction.”
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 7:11:26 AM
What you think you want isn’t always what’s best for you.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:38:35 AM
If I were being completely honest, there was a part of me
that felt completely free now that the money had disappeared.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:38:45 AM
If I were being completely honest, there was a part of me
that felt completely free now that the money had disappeared. No magic trick
lasts forever.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:41:13 AM
One of humanity’s most enduring myths is that wealth will
bring happiness and money is the solution to any problem. I had lost my money,
and that was a problem.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:45:36 AM
but some lessons can’t be taught and have to be learned by
experience to be learned at all.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:46:34 AM
The brain has its mysteries, but the heart holds secrets
that I was determined to uncover.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 10:47:40 AM
The mind wants to divide and keep us separate. It will teach
us to compare ourselves, to differentiate ourselves, to get what’s ours because
there is only so much to go around. The heart, however, wants to connect us and
wants to share. It wants to show us that there are no differences and that
ultimately we are all the same. The heart has an intelligence of its own, and
if we learn from it we will know that we keep what we have only by giving it
away. If we want to be happy, we make others happy. If we want love, we have to
give love. If we want joy, we need to make others joyful. If we want
forgiveness, we have to forgive. If we want peace, we have to create it in the
world around us.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 1:28:58 PM
The grand finale of the magic that Ruth taught me was the
ultimate insight that the only way to truly change and transform your life for
the better is by transforming and changing the lives of others.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 1:29:33 PM
the power of compassion to not only heal each of our own
wounds of the heart but the hearts of those around us. It’s the greatest gift,
and the greatest magic.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 1:50:04 PM
Many have used the analogy that holding anger or hostility
against another you feel has wronged you is like drinking poison and hoping it
kills the other person. It doesn’t work. It poisons you. It poisons your
interactions with others. It poisons your outlook on the world. Ultimately, it
makes you the prisoner in a jail where you hold the key yet won’t unlock the
door. The reality is that each of us in our lives has wronged others.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 1:56:50 PM
The Dalai Lama once said, “My religion is kindness,” and
that has become my religion as well.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 2:00:14 PM
I had made an identity out of my poverty, and as long as I
carried that identity with me, no matter how much wealth I accumulated, I would
always be living in poverty.
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Into the Magic Shop (Doty MD, James)
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 1:00:43 AM
IT CAN HURT to go through life with your heart open but not
as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 1:06:05 AM
When our brains and our hearts are working in
collaboration—we are happier, we are healthier, and we automatically express
love, kindness, and care for one another.
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Many people remember the Latin phrase Primum non nocere,
“First do no harm,”
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It’s easy to connect the dots of a life in retrospect, but
much harder to trust the dots will connect together and form a beautiful
picture when you’re in the messiness of living a life.
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“There is no perfect life we are born into, and there is no
escaping the awful reality of suffering. There is also no escaping the
beautiful synchronicity of the heart.”
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We need only to look into our own minds and into our own
hearts.