"Anger is the elephant in the room. We give it many different names, and
dress it up in different issues, which can all feel righteous one way or
another. It’s still just anger. Coming along with it is plenty of the
usual (or excess) guilt, which is just resentment directed inwardly.
Said another way, guilt is a form of repressed rage directed at oneself.
It has nothing to do with the alleged thing about which one feels
guilty; that’s a ruse." — Eric Francis, It's Gonna Get Stranger
Showing posts with label emotions vs feelings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotions vs feelings. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Friday, August 15, 2008
Emotions vs Feelings
For the purposes of this discussion, let's differentiate between emotions and feelings. Emotion is that highly charged state that comes upon us, described in the East as the restless tiger pacing the jungle of our minds; we are advised to simply watch it pass, uninterrupted. Feeling is more in tune with our intuitive capacity in that it sends a signal advising us of the energy we are dealing with.(... have to find where I got this quote from!!!)
Feelings are like signposts; they function to inform us of the terrain ahead. We cannot, in actuality, get our feelings hurt -- that's our ego that's yelping. But we can get painful feelings from another person who does not seek our well-being; more likely than not, they are more mindlessly focused on their own desires than on anything we might need from them.
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