Tag: religion

Whether we pursue it or seek to avoid it, feeling empty is full of meaning.

Wrath may involve a display of power, but it also reveals a lack of self-control and a failure to perceive the bigger picture.

There are some people who argue that a religious life is its own reward, that worship and piety lead to an experience of a kind of sacred joy. Medieval Christian monks, however, were… more emotion Acedia

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.

Xibipiio expresses the sensation of something flickering in and out of existence, like a shaft of light piercing a thick but wavering canopy, a wave rising and falling on a river, or a visitor arriving and then leaving again.