The very way we express our emotions is symptomatic of our misunderstanding of the nature of emotions and our own nature as human beings experiencing them.
When we say we are lonely, we declare an identificationwith that emotion. In a real way, we believe we are the emotion we feel. Yet the fact is loneliness - or whatever emotion we feel - is not our identity. It may seem very real, but we are in fact not it.
Be aware, the emotions we feel may be strong or weak, intense or light, pleasant or unpleasant, but we are not our emotions. Why? Simply because emotions come and go - and "we remain". So at best, they are mere states we go through.
No comments:
Post a Comment