Feelings Born of Ideas & Reality · How Do You Deal with Feels?
⁘ “Emotions! Can't live with them — can't live without them. On one hand: the unrooted emotions, not responses to "what is". Our ideas. On the other hand, direct raw emotions, intimately connected with reality as it is. Ever dealt with ungrounded, rootless emotions — pure hallucinations? And the direct raw emotions — reactions, reflexes to "what is". Positive and negative alike. But how do we manage and leverage the potential of emotions?”
The reality of emotions,
their role and meaning in our lives.
Can't live with them,
can't live without them, right?
One, the unrooted emotions,
that are basically not responses to "what is".
Our ideas.
And on the other hand, direct raw emotions,
intimately connected with reality as it is.
And I'll bet the billion dollars that I don't have
on the fact that you have experienced ungrounded,
rootless emotions, pure hallucinations,
both from others and arising from within yourself.
How do you deal with those?
Then on the other hand,
we have the direct raw emotions,
intimately arising from reality itself.
Reactions, reflexes to "what is".
Positive and negative alike.
Fear, anger, joy, surprise, etc.
But how do we leverage this potential,
a transformative potential,
without being blinded by it,
without letting the emotion
take full control of our lives?
What you say?