Friday, August 9, 2024

Feeling and thinking

Emotion informs you, discipline empowers you. Both are necessary, in measured balance.

Drama inspires purposeful pursuits, and rationality enables effective action. Both have their place, and it’s your place to mediate between them.

Yes, by all means let yourself feel the feelings. At the same time, do your best to look objectively at the facts.

Decisions based purely on feelings will leave you powerless. Decisions based purely on facts will leave you empty.

What’s far preferable to either of those fates is to live a life of wholeness, with thoughts and feelings supporting each other. Embrace the mysteries of life while also recognizing the factual realities of the world in which you live.

It’s a great wonder of your existence that you can harmonize your thoughts and feelings to consider and support each other. Keep that harmony going, and live in the richness it enables you to create.

— Ralph Marston

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