emotional intelligence

You are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions, you are not your circumstances, and you are not your history.

You are the awareness that observes all of these things.

But somewhere along the way, you forgot this. You became identified with the contents of your consciousness instead of consciousness itself.

The thing about emotions is: you can't selectively numb them. When you train yourself to avoid sadness, you also turn down joy. When you eliminate anger, you also eliminate passion. When you remove attachment, you also remove love.