Sublime

Our emotions are, in effect, reactions, which are generated by the positive or negative responses of the ego/personality.

neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment.

Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions.

With a journal, you can record what events triggered strong emotions in you and how you responded to them.

human life consists primarily and originally in action–in living in the concrete world of “suchness.” But we have the power to control action by reflection, that is, by thinking, by comparing the actual world with memories or “reflections.” Memories are organized in terms of more or less abstract images–words, signs, simplified shapes, and other

he’s a phenomenologist,

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.