Emotional Granularity

We get an eerie feeling in the shadows because we know, deep in our hearts, what is there, waiting to be unseen.

Speakers of Tagalog, the most common language in the Philippines, speak of a particular kind of emotion that comes over people, making them grit their teeth or tremble with the futile effort to… more emotion Gigil

Bitterness finds an uncomfortable discomfort in the feeling of justification for standing apart from the aesthetic of the simply happy.

The fear of the washed up is that, with their image tarnished, they’ll never again be given a chance to prove themselves.

The feeling of retrouvailles comes when people who once were close are able to share simple experiences together as they once did.

Friluftsliv is both the practice of purposefully spending significant amounts of time outdoors and the emotion that this practice engenders.

True compassion fatigue occurs among those who work regularly with people who are suffering from trauma.

Compassion is felt most often in spite of formal ethical education, rather than because of it. As an emotion, it exists most authentically because of what we feel to be right, regardless of what we’ve been taught to think.

Think of an aristocrat, a lord with an elegant manor house, powerful social connections, habitual deference from those around him, and massive amounts of inherited money. Now picture his reaction when he discovers… more emotion Surly

There are things that we’ll do for as long as we live because they suit our nature. Every day, for example, I take some time aside from my work to look off into… more emotion Devotion