My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.

chaos is the first step in the creative process.

Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

Peace is only a thought away.