Monday, August 29, 2005

Rational feelings

On the border of rationality and feeling...

The heart feels right, the heart feels happy, the heart wants to go deep into it, to experience the happiness and wonder of love...

The head is rational, the head remembers past hurts, the head wants more time to think and analyse...

How should one resolve these conflicting elements existing inside oneself? Is there anything called "rational feelings"?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

good q. don't think there's such thing as "rational feelings". in any case, arguably, feelings by definition are highly subjective and therefore difficult if not impossible to be manipulated by rational thinking. a perspective would be your actions in respect of the particular feelings should be guided by rational thinking as much as possible. ie, feel the feel, and act after thinking. ie, not act with your feelings. act after thinking guided/directed by feelings.