When Sacks was facing his own death, he wrote a short book called Gratitude.16 In it, he wrote “I cannot pretend that I am without fear. But my predominate feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” Being grateful is a choice that brings us away from the left-brain interpreter and into better alignment with the powers of the right brain.
