Emotions

"Running as deep as the soul, emotions are an inalienable property of your being. They form the colours of life. And emotions can lift you up or bring you down. What are these curious things we call ‘emotions’? Can we control them? Are emotions the key to a happy life? Let's lool at some aspects of the things we call emotions."

"What exactly is emotion? Emotion is a unique power of the soul by which we are able to experience such things as love, fear, hatred, pleasure, pain, hope, joy, sadness, sorrow, anger, and so on. Emotion cannot be represented in terms of any other power; that is, it is irreducibly one and the same as itself; and it is real and present in the soul..."

"Why do we have emotions at all? ... [this] is almost like asking ‘Why should we exist at all?’ Emotions are as mysterious as life and existence itself. But that does not mean that we cannot penetrate the mystery even if we cannot explain it..."

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