I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.
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The Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press (2001) ISBN 978-0804738903Robinson Jeffers
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I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.
Laura Riding
It is only when they see nothing
That people can always show the suitable emotions —
And so far as they feel at all, their emotions are suitable.
They don't understand what it is to be awake,
To be living on several planes at once
Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot
The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing. In fact, it is not just the so-called negative emotions that are uncomfortable. When you choose to live fully, your palate of experiences, thoughts, emotions, and possibilities expands. This leads you onto new ground in other areas of your life as well. And, folks, all that newness swirling around just ain’t comfortable.
Nicholas Lore
Fellowship with Jesus lies not alone in pleasurable emotions; you must learn it in suffering and in service.
Anna Shipton
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