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• Emotion: A strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Oxford Dictionary
• Emotion: Instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge. Oxford Dictionary
• Emotion: An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
• Emotion: A strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings in general. Dictionary.com
• Emotion: A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, and anger. American Heritage
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Feelings are a big part of our life experience and at the root of many of our endeavours and creations

• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. Albert Einstein
• Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. Osho
• Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. Elizabeth Gilbert

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Emotions are at the root of our happiness and unhappiness

• As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. The Dalai Lama
• I define happiness as ‘the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.’ A happy person enjoys positive emotions while perceiving her life as purposeful. The definition does not pertain to a single moment but to a generalized aggregate of one’s experiences: a person can endure emotional pain at times and still be happy overall. Tal Ben- Shahar
• Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental.  When we live awash in great feeling over small things, we become jaded long before we have even begun to enjoy. When feelings are in balance they sweeten long days and great distances with gratitude and hope. Joan Chittister
• Suffering is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self- pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. Michael Pollan
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Learning to understand and deal with our emotions is an important part of life

• Feelings are one of the most important parts of our life experience, and how we learn to understand, handle and guide them is a huge factor in determining how joyful and fulfilling our lives can become.  Amanda Harvey
• Start putting emotions in their place as a part of your life experience, but not the master of it. Amanda Harvey
• If you don’t manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. Shakti Gawain

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It’s important learn to be conscious and aware of your emotions …

• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you. Gary Zukav
• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. Vernon Howard
• When you observe and describe your internal state, that is one step in managing your emotions. For some, this means taking time to identify the specific emotions they’re feeling: jealousy, hurt, anger, or fear? Karyn Hall, PHD
• When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life. Tara Meyer Robson
• Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it. Benedict Spinoza
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… for emotions can teach you much about yourself and life

• When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful. Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. Rumi
• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are. Pema Chodron

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Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor and manage emotion

• Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence. Robert K. Cooper. Ph.D.
• Emotional Intelligence refers to the capacity for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and our relationships. Daniel Goleman
• The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. John Mayer and Peter Salovey
• We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. Salovey & Mayer
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Our emotional intelligence greatly influences our success in life

• In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine our success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. John Gottman
• Learning how to become emotionally literate is one of the best investments that human beings can make for themselves, their children, and the future. Ayman Sawaf
• What really matters for success, character, happiness and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills –your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests. Daniel Goleman
• Emotional Intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions. Research suggests it is responsible for as much as 80% of the success” in our lives. J. Freedman
• People high in emotional intelligence are expected to progress more quickly through the abilities designated and to master more of them. Mayer and Salovey
• But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. Daniel Goleman
• In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. Daniel Goleman
• In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. John Gottman
• Emotional competence is the single most important personal quality that each of us must develop and access to experience a breakthrough. Only through managing our emotions can we access our intellect and our technical competence. An emotionally competent person performs better under pressure.  Dave Lennick
• If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Daniel Goleman
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Thoughts and emotions are closely linked

• Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body. Eckhart Tolle
• Emotions, especially fear, amplifies thoughts so they take us over. We believe the thoughts to be reality. They possess us. Eckhart Tolle
• It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head — it is the unique intersection of both. David Caruso
• There are emotions which are biologically oriented and then there are complex emotions which are saturated with thoughts and cognition. Jack Mayer
• There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked. Eric Jensen
• There is no thinking without feeling and no feeling without thinking. Karen McCown
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Feelings are your body’s reactions to your thoughts …

• Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body. Eckhart Tolle
• The way we feel is the direct result of what we think. Pete Cohen
• You mainly feel the way you think. Albert Ellis
• When we identify an irrational thought (a cognitive distortion), we change the way we think about an event and thereby change the way we feel. Tal Ben- Shahar
• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. Clement Stone

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… and are an authentic means of understanding the truth of your subconscious mind

• Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
• Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth. Neale Donald Walsch
• Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth. José N. Harris
• If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of your state of mind at the time.  Eckhart Tolle
• Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth. Miguel Ruiz
• Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.
• The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. Augustus William Hare
• The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.  Marianne Williamson
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Thinking and emotion come from different parts of the brain

• When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip. Daniel Goleman
• The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. Daniel Goleman
• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response. Daniel Goleman
• In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. Daniel Goleman
• But the rational mind usually doesn’t decide what emotions we “should” have ! Daniel Goleman

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Let your feelings guide you in your decisions

• If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That’s the lesson. And that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of grief. Oprah Winfrey
• And how do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. Oprah Winfrey
• It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong. Jude Morgan
• Cool your head and warm your heart. Pay attention to intuition, hunches, gut feelings.  Don’t think too much, let your emotions inform you.  Hunches frequently do provide you information from your own unconscious that you should pay attention to.  We get so programmed to use our left brains, to investigate, problem-solve, attack that we apply this mode to all of our lives.  Much of the time, especially when we’re spinning our wheels, we need to stop, look, and listen:  pay attention with the right brain, see the gestalt, the whole–”get” the situation as it involves ourselves and our feelings.   Richard O’Connor
• Today I will witness the choices I make in each moment. When I make a choice, I will ask myself two questions: What are the consequences? Will it bring happiness and fulfilment to me and those effected by this decision? Then I will ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its feeling of comfort or discomfort. Deepak Chopra
• Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way… We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that – sometimes – we’re better off that way.  Malcolm Gladwell
• People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul- satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith Leavitt
• Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than cognition. Maurice Elias
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Let your feelings guide your moral choices

• Emotions are about values, right and wrong, good and bad. In any situation that involves a moral choice, pay attention to your feelings. If you think too much, your defences can get to work.  Try not to overthink ethical problems.  Pay attention to what your heart, or your guts, tells you is right, because it probably is.  Richard O’Connor
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Let your feelings help you in your spiritual journey to discover who you are

• Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung
• Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. Eckhart Tolle
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. Gary Zukav
• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. Chanakya
• Real feelings are the language of the soul. I listen. Neale Donald Walsch
• The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings, follow your feelings, honour your feelings. Neale Donald Walsch
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•  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
• There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. Cynthia Hand
• Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment. Arnold Hutschnecker
• When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Buddha
• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Albert Einstein
• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke
• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little. Serrilyn Kenyon
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Always accept and honor your emotions, including the negative ones

• Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored. Karla McLaren
• Negative human emotions are not fun to have, but ignoring them or denying them will not make them go away. Emotions need to be understood, accepted, and validated- much like naughty children. Only then can they begin to become happy and positive. Amanda Harvey
• Feelings are real and legitimate.
• Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
• To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. Marshall Rosenberg
• The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. Milan Kundera
• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright
• If we try to smooth over, or avoid acknowledging, that certain things seriously annoy us, or make us angry, or sad, or frustrated, or confused, or scared, we are bottling up our emotions, and this never leads to anything good. Emotions need to be acknowledged, expressed appropriately, felt, and then ultimately released. If we do not take the time, and make the effort to process emotions in this way, they will eat away at our wellbeing. Amanda Harvey
• Feelings are feelings. They don’t have dumb or smart labels. Cherise Sinclair
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Learning to deal with negative emotions is essential

• In learning to manage our less positive emotions, we need to remember that emotions come and go, and that we need to let them flow over us without sweeping us away from our paths. Amanda Harvey
• If we allow our negative emotions too much control over our lives, they can affect our choices, our happiness, and our motivation. Amanda Harvey
• From an energy perspective, negative emotions are costly and inefficient. Much like a gas- guzzling car, they draw down our energy stores at a rapid rate. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

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Realise that negative emotions are a natural part of life, even for the happiest and healthiest of individuals

• Self-actualizing does not mean a transcendence of all human problems. Conflict, anxiety, frustration, sadness, hurt, and guilt can all be found in healthy human beings. Abraham Maslow
• The emotional life that the Perfectionist expects is one of a constant high; the Optimalist expects his life to include emotional ups, emotional downs, and everything in between. The Perfectionist rejects painful emotions that do not meet his expectation of an unwavering flow of positive emotions; the Optimalist permits himself to experience the full range of human emotions. Tal Ben- Shahar
• It is a strong and emotionally healthy individual that allows themselves to wholly experience, and express in an appropriate manner, the full range of human emotions. Amanda Harvey
• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly – not one. Rumi

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The truth is that a feeling is never unacceptable or dangerous, it’s only the way you express it that can potentially be so

• Most of us have gotten the message that some feelings are not acceptable, not polite, not to be experienced as part of the self. We’ve stuffed or denied or dissociated ourselves from those feelings, but the emotions underneath remain there, under the surface.  They can motivate our behavior without our awareness, and cause us guilt and shame that seems to come from nowhere.  The chemistry from those emotions is there too, flowing into our body with no outlet, contributing to the sense of perpetual stress.  Richard O’Connor
• All this is wrong-headed, based on the false assumption that our feelings are dangerous or unacceptable. It’s how we express feelings, not the feelings themselves, that can be dangerous or unacceptable.  We have some ability, and we can develop more, to control how we express our feelings.  Simply paying mindful attention to ourselves helps a great deal. Richard O’Connor
• Accept the unacceptable: lust, greed, envy, hate, murder.  Feelings like these are just as much a part of you as anything else.  We may not be proud of it, but we can’t help it, and it doesn’t help to pretend it isn’t there.  We’re social animals, and feelings about our status in the tribe, our access to the best mates to pass down our genes, are hard- wired into us.  We want to control how we act on these feelings, but we don’t have to pretend they don’t exist.  Richard O’Connor

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Realise that you cannot control or manipulate your emotions…

• …no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there’s no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. Milan Kundera
• One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Gustave Flaubert
• Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. Mark Twain
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… and although natural, your emotions may be far from rational and that’s ok

• Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. David Borenstein
• The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. Milan Kundera
• Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions. Shoma Morita, M.D.
• Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. Paulo Coelho
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What you do have control over is your reaction to your emotions and the actions you take

• Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. Nicholas Sparks
• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl S. Buck
• As human beings, we all experience a wide range of emotions. We often don’t choose the emotions we encounter, but we can choose what to do with them. Amanda Harvey
• Don’t wrestle with the bad feeling, don’t fight the problem; do and act the best you know in spite of how you feel, and return to your center of inward sovereignty and walk on. Ervin Seale
• There is also a huge difference between allowing ourselves to fully experience our emotions and feeling compelled to act on them. Action is always a matter of choice. Amanda Harvey
• Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. Vincent van Gogh
• Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. Jonatan Mårtensson
• We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are. J.K. Rowling
• To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments. Brian Koslow
• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. Daniel Goleman

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We can manage emotion through action

• Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.
• It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. O.H. Mowrer
• Behavior wags the tail of feelings… We do, then we feel. Feelings follow behavior. David Reynolds
• Most of us believe an emotion, such as happiness, comes first. Then we do whatever we do, in reaction to that particular emotion. Not so. The emotion arises simultaneously with the doing of the act. So if you want to be enthusiastic, you can get there by acting as if you were already enthusiastic. Steve Chandler
• If you are feeling down, force yourself to engage in activities that you have found pleasurable in the past. Even if they don’t seem appealing right now, they will help you start to overcome apathy, indifference, and lack of energy that are major symptoms of depression. Robert W. Firestone
• We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre
• You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it. Jerome Brunet
• Do it now, feel better later. Robert Leahy, Ph.D.
• The most constructive way to influence your emotions is to do something. Dan Millman
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We can manage emotion to a certain extent through thought

• The way we feel is the direct result of what we think. Pete Cohen
• You mainly feel the way you think. Albert Ellis
• When we identify an irrational thought (a cognitive distortion), we change the way we think about an event and thereby change the way we feel. Tal Ben- Shahar
• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. Clement Stone
• Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life. Bryant McGill
• We need to align your feelings, thoughts and actions to create a balanced and harmonious life
• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke
• One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life. Napoleon Hill
• The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. Madame de Stael
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has two advantages over medication: there are no side effects, and If you can change our unhealthy beliefs and thoughts and replace then with more healthy and realistic beliefs and thoughts, you can therefore change your emotions (anxiety) and hence your behaviour. Nancy Schimelpfening
• Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself. Brian Tracy
• The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition – the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself. Napoleon Hill
• Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. Maxwell Maltz
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We can manage emotion to a certain extent through managing our beliefs

• Examine what (usually false) beliefs are fuelling your emotion. Once you have figured out what is causing the feelings you are experiencing, you can then begin to let them go and replace them with positive beliefs and emotions.  Amanda Harvey
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Often the most important step is to learn to accept negative emotions and let them be

• Life without emotions would be as calm as death, like a world without weather. Accept feelings as they are; pleasant or painful, they are natural and don’t need fixing. Let them rise and pass without allowing changeable emotions to run your life. Dan Millman
• Accept emotions completely, let your feelings be; just don’t let them run your life. Dan Millman
• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron
• But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. Anne Frank
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Always be open to feel your negative emotions rather than repressing them, for only then can you free them

• To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart. Francesco Guicciardini
• When I repress my emotion, my stomach keeps score. John Enoch Powell
• People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile. Judith Guest
• The things you left behind, will always find you in future. Nikhil Anubhav Minz
• The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them. Shaeri Richards
• People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are. Paul Berman
• Its not that I have stopped feeling, it’s just that I have stopped expressing. And that causes more pain to the heart and more suffering to the soul. Because the feelings unexpressed, the words unspoken and the prayers unheard are much more heart rending than the physical or mental distress.  Shalini Govil
• I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got. Toni Morrison
• Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise. John and Lyn St Clair
• We think too much and feel too little. Charlie Chaplin
• Sometimes it is not necessary to understand, analyze, label and categorize our feelings, it is only necessary to allow ourselves to feel them. Once they have been felt, they can be let go. Amanda Harvey
• The cure for pain is in the pain. Rumi
• There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle- Adam
• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. Kahlil Gibran
• Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. D. James
• If you stifle your feelings, they may leak out and affect everyone around you—not just the person who inspired your anger. Before you can let go of any emotion you have to feel it fully. Lori Deschene
• Although suppressing unpleasant feelings is a natural impulse, avoiding your emotions will ultimately prevent you from moving past them. Sheri Meyers
• But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’. Mitch Albom
• By starving emotions, we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. Joseph Collins
• Emotions need to be acknowledged, expressed appropriately, felt, and then ultimately released. If we do not take the time, and make the effort to process emotions in this way, they will eat away at our wellbeing. Amanda Harvey

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Realise you need to feel your negative emotions if you want to feel positive ones

• Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond the emotions, on a much deeper level. So you need to become fully conscious of your emotions and be able to feel them before you can feel that which lies beyond them. Emotion literally means “disturbance. Eckhart Tolle
• If we try to deny and suppress our darker emotions, we will only succeed in numbing ourselves emotionally. If you anesthetize yourself against pain, how will you feel joy? Amanda Harvey
• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anais Nin

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Realise that if you don’t face a negative emotion, it goes deep inside you and returns later as pain (even depression) which can be much harder to deal with

• Any negative emotion that is not fully faced and seen for what it is in the moment it arises does not completely dissolve. It leaves behind a remnant of pain. … This energy field of old but still very- much- alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain- body. Eckhart Tolle
• The things you left behind, will always find you in future. Nikhil Anubhav Minz
• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. K. Rowling
• Depression is often triggered by external events or situations. The unexamined emotions that these events create – especially suppressed anger – contribute greatly to the experience of depression. Amanda Harvey
• Depression is not sadness. In depression, we lose the ability to feel much of any emotion. The true opposite of depression is vitality — the ability to feel a full range of emotions, including happiness, joy, pride, but also including sadness and grief. Dr Richard O’Connor
• The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality – the ability to experience a full range of emotions, including happiness, excitement, sadness, and grief. Depression is not an emotion itself; it’s the loss of feelings, a big heavy blanket that insulates you from the world yet hurts at the same time. It’s not sadness or grief, it’s an illness. Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.
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Repressed emotions can also affect our physical health

• If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom. Eckhart Tolle
• Lower-energy emotions like fear, anger, regret, and jealousy are magnets for health issues. Release the mind from such disturbing thoughts, and you will find much more room for joy and love. J. Goldwag
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Repressed emotions are at the heart of our negative addictions and cravings

• It is the natural course of emotions to come and go as it is for thoughts, physical sensations, and just about everything else. Think about if you have ever felt the emotion of sadness or joy. Did the feeling eventually pass? However, with uncomfortable emotions we often try to ignore or avoid them. It is in this struggling and avoidance where we find our greatest suffering and in turn, our greatest triggers, cravings, and urges.  Elisha Goldstein
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One trick to feeling emotions is to allow them to flow and then watch them mindfully without judgement

• Let your feelings flow freely, accept each one of them, know that they are your feelings and no one is to blame for them. Live from your essence and watch your feelings flow; only when you accept them can you understand the story of your life. Patricia Selbert
• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Watch your emotional responses with detachment (i.e. sense their physiological effect on your body and breathing.) Observe them. Feel them but calmly, not tensed up. The emotion will move through you and soften up. Unblock emotions in this way. Bob Parsons
• Instead of using meditation a way to get rid of negative feelings, consider it a way to feel whatever you are feeling more fully and more freely. Martin Boroson
• One of the most important domains meditation acts upon is emotional intelligence—a set of skills far more consequential for life success than cognitive intelligence. Richard Davidson
• Afflictive emotions — our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear — can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned. Tenzin Gyatso
• Angry? Attach the phrase “this is anger” to every furious thought. Anxious? As you suffer it, say, “This is anxiety.” Twenty-five hundred years ago, Buddha taught that we manage our emotions better when we label experiences. Science is catching up.  Jena Pincott
• By becoming more and more familiar with the mechanisms of the mind and by cultivating mindfulness, you will reach the point where you no longer let sparks of nascent emotions turn into forest fires that can destroy your own happiness and that of others. Matthieu Ricard
• If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. Eckhart Tolle
• In the practice of meditation, we neither encourage emotions nor repress them. By seeing them clearly, by allowing them to be as they are, we no longer permit them to serve as a means of entertaining and distracting us. Chogyam Trungpa
• Practice detachment. This is the best way to experience feelings without letting them control you.  Think of an old steam locomotive—it comes roaring into the station full of power, noise, smoke, bells, lights—a huge, overwhelming experience.  But we have some ability to choose whether we get on board or not.  Distance yourself somewhat from mood and emotions:  they are part of you, but not all of you.  They won’t last forever.  Richard O’Connor
• Self-awareness is not an attention that gets carried away by emotions, overreacting and amplifying what is perceived. Rather, it is a neutral mode that maintains self-reflectiveness even amidst turbulent emotions. Daniel Goleman
• Let go of emotions through mindfulness,  Mindfulness

… by allowing the emotion to arise and subside while staying rooted in awareness

• Do nothing except notice that the pure awareness that you are in this moment is naturally and fully open to every experience, state, and emotion that arises in that awareness. When any emotion arises, notice that awareness is what sees and feels the emotion directly. “Notice” is not an invitation to witness the emotions as if you are somehow separate from them. Notice is an invitation to be fully open to the emotion and to see that awareness is arising as the emotion. Scott Kiloby
• An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds —unless there is enough presence in you. If you are pulled into unconscious identification with the emotion through lack of presence, which is normal, the emotion temporarily becomes “you” … Basically, all emotions are modifications of one primordial undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of awareness of who you are beyond name and form. Eckhart Tolle
• I also like to think of physical symptoms and stressful thoughts or emotions as waves on the ocean of life. They rise and they fall. Instead of going rigid in the face of them, I try to calmly and steadily ride the ups and downs. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• I am present as the watcher of my mind – my thoughts, emotions and reactions – without judging or analysing. I feel the still, observing presence within. Eckhart Tolle
• We can’t control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what’s happening. That awareness can be our refuge. Sharon Salzberg
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Mindfully breathe your way though difficult emotions

• Get emotionally honest. Let of go of numbing your feelings. Shopping, eating, and drinking are examples of avoiding discomfort, sadness, and pain. Mindfully breathe your way through your feelings and emotions. Tess Marshall
• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Thich Nhat Hanh
• As we free our breath (with diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions. Gay Hendricks
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Remain open to your painful emotions even if the tendency is to close and resist

• If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that – then that will take you as far as you can go. Pema Chodron
• Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. Deepak Chopra
• Any movement to escape emotions is seeking. The mind asks, “How can I be free of negative emotions?” You can’t. Whatever is arising is what is. Attempting to escape emotions is resisting them. You — the separate self — are that resistance. Do nothing except notice that the pure awareness that you are in this moment is naturally and fully open to every experience, state, and emotion that arises in that awareness. When any emotion arises, notice that awareness is what sees and feels the emotion directly. “Notice” is not an invitation to witness the emotions as if you are somehow separate from them. Notice is an invitation to be fully open to the emotion and to see that awareness is arising as the emotion. Notice the tendency to contract against and resist life. To be fully open and awake to life and every emotion that arises in response to life is not a practice or doing in time. It is a present seeing. To be fully open is to be the emotion fully without resistance, without the “person” who would try to escape it. Noticing emotions reveals that emotions are empty. They are made of — and not other than — the very emptiness (i.e., awareness) that you are. Scott Kiloby
• Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. “But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’. Mitch Albom
• Any movement to escape emotions is seeking. The mind asks, “How can I be free of negative emotions?” You can’t. Whatever is arising is what is. Attempting to escape emotions is resisting them. You — the separate self — are that resistance. Do nothing except notice that the pure awareness that you are in this moment is naturally and fully open to every experience, state, and emotion that arises in that awareness. When any emotion arises, notice that awareness is what sees and feels the emotion directly. “Notice” is not an invitation to witness the emotions as if you are somehow separate from them. Notice is an invitation to be fully open to the emotion and to see that awareness is arising as the emotion. Notice the tendency to contract against and resist life. To be fully open and awake to life and every emotion that arises in response to life is not a practice or doing in time. It is a present seeing. To be fully open is to be the emotion fully without resistance, without the “person” who would try to escape it. Noticing emotions reveals that emotions are empty. They are made of — and not other than — the very emptiness (i.e., awareness) that you are. Scott Kiloby
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If you do this, negative emotions will tend to flow through you and dissipate quickly

• In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. Eckhart Tolle

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Of course, having a good cry is also a very healthy way of healing negative emotions

• When she cried, he would say, “There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who you are. They tell what is important. Don’t ever be ashamed of them.” Terry Brooks
• Every once in a while, she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s ok. She’s letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That’s when you’re in big trouble. Haruki Murakami
• A very powerful way of being able to express and release negative emotions is through tears. Just as laughter allows us to express our joy, crying is a natural and healthy expression of pain and sorrow. Amanda Harvey
• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. Kripalvanandji
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Laughter is another way to deal with negative emotions

• In the face of stressful events, smiling and laughter can help “undo” negative emotions, distract, and bring about feelings of peace, amusement, or even joy. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions. Norman Cousins
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There are rich rewards for connecting with your feelings and not pushing them away

• When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. Warren Farrell
• If we are always pushing away from feelings that we condemn as wrong, painful, or ugly, we are also pushing away from the very energy that can bring us incredible joy and ecstasy. Shaeri Richards
• Sometimes we have to feel bad to know how to feel good… Nitra Gipson
• Eyes that do not cry, do not see. Swedish Proverb

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Feel your negative emotions but don’t hang onto them or indulge them

• Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged. Roseanna White
• We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can’t entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm. Phillip Cary
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Do not let emotions, especially negative ones, run your life

• The heart of accepting your emotions and reclaiming your will is to do what you need to do despite what you are feeling. Accept and learn from your feelings, but don’t let them run your life. By remaining productive during difficult emotional episodes, you are more likely to improve your emotional state than if you do nothing but ruminate and wait for sunny skies. Daniel Goleman
• You don’t have to like it, you just have to do it. Doing what needs to be done even when it’s the last thing you want to do, is the critical factor in achieving success. Mike Mahler
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Learn to investigate and explore your feelings and discover their roots…

• Use your emotions to do self-enquiry. Don’t resist negative emotions. Don’t try to control them. Meet them fully. Be with the emotion. Be there, naked, without any thinking or justification. Let your story about it go. Under the emotion is something deeper. What is it? And under that? What secret insights are hiding under your feelings? Under it all is who you really are. Gangaji (adapted)
• The pain shows you what’s left to investigate. Byron Katie
• Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in. Barbara Marciniak
• The first thing to do in learning how to deal with our human emotions is to learn to identify what we are feeling, and the roots of these emotions. If we can identify our emotions, we can deal with them appropriately. We can also gain positive understanding of ourselves, different situations, and the human condition.  Amanda Harvey
• Examine what (usually false) beliefs are fuelling your emotion. Once you have figured out what is causing the feelings you are experiencing, you can then begin to let them go and replace them with positive beliefs and emotions.  Amanda Harvey
• A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it. Vernon Howard
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… although be aware that true feelings can take some uncovering…

• How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy
• Feelings are the language of the soul, but you must make sure you are listening to your true feelings and not some counterfeit model constructed in your mind. Neale Donald Walsch
• Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. Irene Claremont de Castillejo

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… and can be difficult to define

• Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. Jeffrey Eugenides

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If you uncover negative emotions to their root, you’ll often find fear

• It is sometimes suggested that the root of almost every negative emotion is fear, and I believe that this holds some truth. Whatever other emotions we are feeling, if we keep looking deeper into our hearts, we will often discover underlying fears. Amanda Harvey
• Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. Psychotic behavior occurs when the mind is to frightened and the wounds so painful, that it seems better to break contact with the outside world. Don Miguel Ruiz
• It is sometimes suggested that the root of almost every negative emotion is fear, and I believe that this holds some truth. Whatever other emotions we are feeling, if we keep looking deeper into our hearts, we will often discover underlying fears. Amanda Harvey
• As long as the ego runs your life, most of your thoughts, emotions, and actions arise from desire and fear. Eckhart Tolle
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Writing, movies, art, poetry and music can help you unearth your emotions

• When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
• I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. Bruce Springsteen
• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingrid Bergman
• We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. Helen Hayes
• Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. Scott Weiland
• Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell
• For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. Paula Cole
• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot
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It can help to talk about your emotions

• Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.  Fred Rogers

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Realise that negative emotions can be a sign to ease up and let go of things

• Your feelings act as a barometer, letting you know what your internal weather is like. Think of your negative feelings in the way you think of warning lights on the dashboard of your car. When flashing, they let you know it’s time to ease up. Negative feelings don’t need to be studied and analyzed.  The next time you’re feeling bad, instead of getting stuck in analysis paralysis, recognize that the reason you’re feeling sad, angry, depressed is that you are taking life too seriously – you are “sweating the small stuff.”  Instead of rolling up your sleeves and fighting back, back off, take a few deep breaths and relax.  Richard Carlson
• Anxiety is your friend. It’s your body trying to tell you something, and you ought to listen.  Most likely, it’s telling you that you’re pushing yourself too hard, pushing yourself into something you don’t want.  Richard O’Connor
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Negative emotions can also be a sign to re-connect with your source energy

• How we feel is simply an indicator of how connected we are to God. Feeling joyful? Sweet. God’s in the house. Feeling not so hot? Awesome. That’s God’s little reminder you’re disconnected. Don’t fret. Just plug back in. How? Most importantly, authentically express yourself without fear. Be you. Quit arguing with reality. Fill up with Source energy in all the ways you know work for you: from proper rest and meditation to exercise, proper nutrition, taking a bath, journaling, whatever. In any case, just look at your feelings as an alarm clock waking you up! Brian Johnson
• It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, ‘You’re caught in the dream.’  Byron Katie

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Negative emotions can be excellent teachers

• Our negative emotions can be very good teachers, and indicators of what areas we need to work on in our lives and in our selves. Working on, rather than ignoring, these areas is vital in helping us find balance, and creating a life that works.

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Feelings, both positive and negative, are important in our interactions with other people

• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
• So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. Dale Carnegie
• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. John Wooden
• Feelings are everywhere — be gentle. Masai
• The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Our feelings are purest in the hour of meeting and farewell

• Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. Jean Paul Richter
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The two deepest emotions: love and fear

• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions–fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions–only two words in the language of the soul…. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. Neale Donald Walsch
• Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. Gerald Jampolsky
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Emotion and reason

• The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. Donald Calne
• Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason. Antonio Dumasio
• Emotions have taught mankind to reason. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
• People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey, and Palfai
• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. Barbara Jordan
• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes
• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Blaise Pascal
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Emotion and the intellect

• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. CarlJung
• Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
• Intellectualization is the overemphasis on thinking when confronted with an unacceptable impulse, situation or behavior without employing any emotions whatsoever to help mediate and place the thoughts into an emotional, human context. Rather than deal with the painful associated emotions, a person might employ intellectualization to distance themselves from the impulse, event or behavior. For instance, a person who has just been given a terminal medical diagnosis, instead of expressing their sadness and grief, focuses instead on the details of all possible fruitless medical procedures. John M. Grohol, PSY.D.

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Emotion and enlightenment

• Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as “bad” or “unenlightened” when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment.  Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing.  Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.  Shakti Gawain
• A common misconception about enlightenment is that “negative” emotions go away. It is true that, in this realization, awareness is no longer attached to thoughts of past and future. Thoughts still arise but they aren’t blindly believed. So “negative” emotions that arise in conjunction with the mental story of “me” tend to arise less. But emotions still arise. Enlightenment does not exclude anything—including any emotion, thought, experience, or state. It is the opening in which everything is happening. It is a seeing, not a denying of what is. Ultimately, it is pure awareness being completely open to whatever emotion, thought, experience, or state is happening at the moment. When emotion arises, it arises to no one. The emotion does not attach itself to a time-bound story of “me.” It isn’t accumulated and held in the body. It comes and goes. Enlightenment just means presence. In presence, emotions may be more painful than ever. Thought is no longer being used to justify, rationalize, and blame. There is no more escaping. The raw emotion is felt directly. There is a total freedom to feel but there is no identification with what is being felt. For example, there is no longer the story, “I’m angry.” There is only anger, coming and going to no one. When there is no accumulation of pain and stories, there is a freshness in each moment, an openness to whatever arises next. Scott Kiloby
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A story about emotional awareness

• A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. The monk replied with scorn, “You’re nothing but a lout – I can’t waste my time with the likes of you!” His very honor attacked, the samurai flew into a rage and, pulling his sword from its scabbard, yelled “I could kill you for your impertinence.” “That,” the monk calmly replied, “is hell.” Startled at seeing the truth in what the master pointed out about the fury that had him in its grip, the samurai calmed down, sheathed his sword, and bowed, thanking the monk for the insight. “And that,”said the monk “is heaven.” The sudden awakening of the samurai to his own agitated state illustrates the crucial difference between being caught up in a feeling and becoming aware that you are being swept away by it. Socrates’s injunction “Know thyself” speaks to the keystone of emotional intelligence: awareness of one’s own feelings as they occur.
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Emotions can be contagious

• A well-established social psychological law is the law of emotional contagion: an emotion expressed within a group has a ripple effect and becomes shared by the group’s members. People are susceptible to “catching” other people’s emotions. If we hang out with ungrateful people, we will “catch” one set of emotions; if we choose to associate with more grateful individuals, the influence will be in another direction. Find a grateful person and spend more time with him or her. When you yourself express buoyant gratitude, you will find that people will want to “catch” your emotions. Robert Emmons

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Emotions and art

• The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. Pablo Picasso
• The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led. Paul Park
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• Christmas: when people get emotional over family ties – especially if they have to wear them.
• Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. James Thurber
• I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.   Woody Allen
• I’m emotionally constipated. I haven’t given a shit in days.
• It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.
• Let’s emotionally damage each other and call it Love.
• Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you’re in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender. Guy Finley
• Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan
• Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. Arthur (Lord) Dewar
• Men are like mascara, they usually run at the first sign of emotion.
• Men have two emotions: hungry and horny; if you see him without an erection make him a sandwich. Anonymous
• Middle age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. Irvin Cobb
• Mixed emotions : you see your Jaguar being driven off a cliff by your mother in law.
• Sex is emotion in motion. Mae West
• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker
• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Gore Vidal
• What do men and mascara have in common? They both run at the first sign of emotion.
• Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. Evan Esar
• Anger; the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
• Beware of men who cry; it’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. Nora Ephron
• Cheerfulness: The art of concealing your true feelings.
• Confidence : That quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.   L. Binder
• Depresso: The feeling you get when you run out of coffee.
• Deja Brew: The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before.
• Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realize what’s wrong with it. Rex Harrison
• Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. Jean Kerr
• I went through a stage of feeling awful to one of feeling terrible. Once I started to feel terrible I was OK. Steve Ovett
• If you have a burning restless urge to write or paint simply, eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Fran Lebowitz
• Indifference: A woman’s feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man as “playing hard to get.”
• Karma: Justice without the feeling of satisfaction.
• Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. Josh Billings
• Love is that butterfly feeling you get in your stomach, after you swallow a caterpillar. Jarod Kintz
• Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.   Richard Pryor
• My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time. Bruce Lansky
• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one as yet is suspicious. L. Mencken
• Tolerance: That uncomfortable feeling that the other fellow might be right after all.
• What’s a mixed feeling? When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your new car.

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