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020 _a9781473639874 (pbk.)
082 _a813.54
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100 _aDoty, James R.
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245 _aInto the magic shop :
_ba neurosurgeon's true story of the life-changing magic of compassion and mindfulness
260 _aLondon
_bYellow Kite Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
_c2016
300 _a276p.,
500 _ahttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31826777-into-the-magic-shop?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
520 _aGrowing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
650 _aMind and body
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650 _aNeurosurgeons
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650 _aAltruism
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942 _cBK
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