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.
Jim Doty

What Mindfulness is Missing

What Mindfulness is Missing

Jul 5, 2016-- Dr. Jim Doty grew up in poverty and with an alcoholic father and depressed mother. But when he was 12 years old, a chance encounter with a woman named Ruth, and her teachings on mindfulness, visualization, and compassion, changed his life. He is now a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. In this interview, Dr. Doty shares more about his life journey and about how mindfulness has to be coupled with compassion in order for one to truly develop wisdom. (56443 reads)


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