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bluidkiti · 08-09-2024, 04:36 AM

August 9

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

08-09-2024, 04:36 AM	#11
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,407	August 9 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 __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.