Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

You are alive.

You can say you have eyes that can see and ears that can hear and you have a digestive tract that can bring in nutrition and you have manual dexterity and you have mobility.

You have legs that can run around the planet and you have this magnificent mind so that you can do what you want to do.

You are a miracle.

And we have forgotten that.

And for me, it took me, this whole stroke experience took me straight back to the part of my brain, that right thinking part that connects me in that transformation or that transcendence experience of being so much more than just a little human being running around the planet.

Oh my gosh.

Life is this miracle.

And it makes me feel awe and wonder.

It excites me so much.

And if everybody had that and recognized that and could grasp that and hold that, imagine the different world we'd be living in.

Eight years.

Yes.

Every day, every breath, everything, I thought of nothing else other than

what can I do and what's in the way of being able to do what I want to do next and rebuilding using what I had in the right hemisphere to rebuild the circuits.

I knew I had language.

I knew I could speak.

I knew I had vocabulary.

I knew I had ideas.

I knew somewhere in there I had numbers.