Aphorisms - Emotion

Ignorance is the accumulation of all past emotional hurt and pain you are pleased to avoid in yourself because you feel it's too painful to face.

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From birth, everyone is compelled and encouraged by the emotional ignorance of parents, teachers and society to attach themselves to their likes and dislikes and to identify with them.

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The main barrier to truth is fear – the desire to remain physically comfortable and emotionally secure.

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Love cannot be demanded. But emotion thinks it can.

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Emotion is a violent energy which cannot resist the opportunity to enslave, hurt or destroy the emotionally weaker form.

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The weeds of thought, grow out of the muck, the stink of emotion inside us.

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Emotion is trouble looking for itself.

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Emotion is only love unrealised so it reproduces self-love and self-service and therefore a limited, unfulfilling life.

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It is the giving up of emotion which is the great sacrifice for love.

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All past is emotion. You only get emotional about the past.

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Emotion is the death of presence.

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There is no emotion in love.

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Love deserted turns into emotion – naturally.

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The conflict or friction between what is, and man's idea of what should be generates heat or emotion.

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There is no mystery about pain, mental or physical: its purpose is to drive you towards consciousness. See this and pain has a purpose; otherwise you suffer for nothing.

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To be selfish is to expect anything of another.

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By consciously focusing on the inner feeling of yourself, you will destroy what is not good in that feeling.

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Music is the play of sentiment.

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We only learn from pain - we don't learn from a good time.

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