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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, the Singin' Scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained
and published neuroanatomist who experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain in 1996. On the afternoon
of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for
Dr. Jill to completely recover all of her functions and thinking ability. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling
memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (published in 2008 by Viking Penguin) and was chosen
as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008. In addition, Dr. Jill was the premiere guest
on Oprah's Soul Series webcast and her interview with Oprah and Dr. Oz on the Oprah Winfrey Show was aired on Tuesday,
October 21, 2008.
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Somewhere on this earth so round
there
is a place that holds no sound
A sanctuary dark and small
a breathless hush that houses all
A place that one can go
in peace
when what is needed is release
A silent hole of unbridled calm
like a choir deep in psalm
So undisturbed, untainted
still
not unlike the whippoorwill
that coos and sings it’s song each morn
and hums its tune so oh forlorn
And like a pond beneath the moon
or like the sand amid a dune
all is well and
soft and right
and Mother Earth with all her might
cannot disrupt this special place
where everything is clear
and safe
What takes us to this holy space?
Meditation
is the train,
the bus, the trolley, and the plane
This place that anyone can find
is simply right inside the mind.
by Sally Shields, author of, A Pond Beneath the Moon
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Life perspective from philosopher-psychologist Strephon Kaplan-Williams
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