This gets to the heart of perhaps one of the most important and fundamental human truths. If we do not welcome and let ourselves experience our full range of emotions (suppressing so called "negative emotion"), over time we deaden "positive" emotion. We spend our lives chasing a perpetual high that doesn't exist. I could literally write a book on this, but I'll just say that our view of what we "should" feel has been badly warped and shaped in ways that fill greedy corporate pockets as they promote and perpetuate a false narrative. And I'll point you to a poem you undoubtedly already know, Rumi's "The Guest House."
By the way, my poison of choice is dark chocolate chipits.
This gets to the heart of perhaps one of the most important and fundamental human truths. If we do not welcome and let ourselves experience our full range of emotions (suppressing so called "negative emotion"), over time we deaden "positive" emotion. We spend our lives chasing a perpetual high that doesn't exist. I could literally write a book on this, but I'll just say that our view of what we "should" feel has been badly warped and shaped in ways that fill greedy corporate pockets as they promote and perpetuate a false narrative. And I'll point you to a poem you undoubtedly already know, Rumi's "The Guest House."
By the way, my poison of choice is dark chocolate chipits.
To sort of quote Dexter, If I didn't have my "Dark Passenger" inspiring my weird and twisted humor I'd be adrift on a sea of blandness.
Only by embracing the 360 of the human emotions can one be balanced enough to grow spiritually.
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift”.~Mary Oliver
I call this the exquisite agony of bliss.