There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When ...
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participa...
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with v...
Switches among identities occur in response to changes in emotional state or to environmental demands, resulting in another identity emerging to assume control. Because different identities have different roles, experiences, emotions, memories, and b...
Today you are encouraged to start tuning in to your inner voice. Nothing will bring you down quicker than berating yourself. The words you speak to yourself have a major impact on your mood and your perception. One of the major reasons we fail is due...
When life gets rough, never think you have failed... allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your inner core of self — you then can put...
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.
I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising myself for possible disto...
Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
