Sublime

The thinker behind the thoughts and the feeler behind the feelings are only thoughts;

Feelings can be indirectly influenced by behavior

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

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.

Feelings are uncontrollable directly by the will.

If you ‘expand’ Awareness and look to see if there is ‘someone’ here who is ‘thinking’, ‘seeing’ or ‘choosing’, one may notice how a habit automatically assumes the ‘identity’ of ‘thinker’, ‘I’ or ‘me’.

fast, nonconscious kind “automatic activation”5 and the slower, reflective kind “conscious processing.” I employ the terms System I (for Impulsive) and System R (for Reflective) to describe the