heart and mind 01
How much do I determine things by the weight of my feeling compared to the weight of my thought?
Can these two things be truly separated?
It strikes me that feeling encompasses: conviction, belief, ideal, fear, longing and loathing, love and hate, inspiration and depression, satisfaction and desperation, desire and despair …
So isn’t it true that feeling really is being?
To have no feelings is to not-be, in a manner of speaking. (But to feel nothing is a whole other thing – a whole other condition or state of being.)
Yet, I am able to position my thinking – (or perhaps it is more accurate to say “my knowledge,” or – even more pointedly – “my conviction”) – against my feeling. (What is the calculus of no thought “against” no feeling?)
Is this word “feeling” a gloss for “emotion?’
I don’t think so. In fact, I am developing the conviction that “emotions” is a misnomer – what is the limit, after all, of what we emote? And is it really “sensible” to assume a sufficient transparency of meaning between these notions of love, hate, anger, joy, etc. and their experience? Is there any limit to the emotive quality of any moment of being, when it’s recognized as such, and thus always expressible?
What is meant to be distinguished – or what is meant by the differentiation (of such an operation) – between emotion and feelings? And so, also (again) between it and thinking? And then (once more) between thinking and all its parceling?
I have used these distinctions, so I obviously assume that I mean something by them – but what? – especially given that my own scrutiny of them calls their veracity into question?
That’s what I must try and sort out, figure out, and work out. (And what is this business of getting “out?”)
Can these two things be truly separated?
It strikes me that feeling encompasses: conviction, belief, ideal, fear, longing and loathing, love and hate, inspiration and depression, satisfaction and desperation, desire and despair …
So isn’t it true that feeling really is being?
To have no feelings is to not-be, in a manner of speaking. (But to feel nothing is a whole other thing – a whole other condition or state of being.)
Yet, I am able to position my thinking – (or perhaps it is more accurate to say “my knowledge,” or – even more pointedly – “my conviction”) – against my feeling. (What is the calculus of no thought “against” no feeling?)
Is this word “feeling” a gloss for “emotion?’
I don’t think so. In fact, I am developing the conviction that “emotions” is a misnomer – what is the limit, after all, of what we emote? And is it really “sensible” to assume a sufficient transparency of meaning between these notions of love, hate, anger, joy, etc. and their experience? Is there any limit to the emotive quality of any moment of being, when it’s recognized as such, and thus always expressible?
What is meant to be distinguished – or what is meant by the differentiation (of such an operation) – between emotion and feelings? And so, also (again) between it and thinking? And then (once more) between thinking and all its parceling?
I have used these distinctions, so I obviously assume that I mean something by them – but what? – especially given that my own scrutiny of them calls their veracity into question?
That’s what I must try and sort out, figure out, and work out. (And what is this business of getting “out?”)
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