When an event occurs in our life that requires a response everyone processes it through either logic or emotion. Some of us think our way through. Some of us feel our way through. Go with our gut, if you will. Which is right?
I am primarily a thinker. In fact I’ve used this quote on my Facebook page before:
My position asserts that the cosmos is fundamentally intelligible in such a way that it can be logically, mathematically, and scientifically recognized to be such, and moreover that the universe emanates from Nous (mind). - Richard Sternberg
However, through logic ironically, I have come to realize that I need to embrace both my logic and emotion. I can not control how I feel. We can not think our emotions away. I not only think therefor I am. I feel therefor I am. The feelings are there, so logically I must ask myself why are the feeling there. What is their root cause? I am learning to give myself permission to embrace feeling.
Who knows maybe this will make me less of an jerk. Its all part of journey.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) (1994). Orthodoxy (p. 17). Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition.
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