If you learn from pain, the experience of pain can be a blessing, but when it is in vain, it causes pain and suffering not only for yourself but also for others.

Pain

Unconditional love is not perfect love or love without pain and suffering, but it means that someone has loved you sacrificially once or for a while.

Problem

Your thoughts create your reality, others can only create your reality if you don't create it yourself.

The brain knows many things, but the truth is that when it connects with the heart, it understands more things.

Heart

Love, when given freely, changes everyone and everything. It is love that contains all virtues. It is love that heals all wounds. In the end, it is not our technology or medicine, but our love that heals and this love. It is what preserves our humanity.

What is Love

There is no perfect life into which we are born, and there is no escape from the terrible reality of suffering, and there is no escape from the beautiful synchronicity of the heart.

LIFE 

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart   Growing 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.

Yasmin Gohari's Key Ideas from Into the Magic Shop
by James R. Doty, MD

Pain

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Heart

What is Love

LIFE

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Yasmin Gohari's Key Ideas from Into the Magic Shopby James R. Doty, MD

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LIFE

Different Perspectives Curated by Others from Into the Magic Shop

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Yasmin Gohari's Key Ideas from Into the Magic Shop
by James R. Doty, MD