The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.