While reading through the book of James I saw a note I had written in the margins that read,
Feelings are reflections of what we have been thinking about.
In other words, the feels follow the facts. How you subjectively feel about things is the product of what you objectively think about. Feelings make better employees than supervisors, and they always require supervision.
Feelings are not as random as we often assume they are. We judge the sincerity of a feeling based on how spontaneously it appears - as though its genuineness were a product of its impulsivity. But feelings do not overtake us out of nowhere. They are products of mental activity. How we think about things and what we think about them stirs the pot of our emotional stew.
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