Leading from the Heartland.................

So let’s talk about this “Reality” thing a little more.

Some people would say that only what you can tangibly sense is real … if you cannot see, smell, touch, hear, or taste something, it does not really exist.  Well, there goes most of the useful expressions of human emotion and existence.  Yes, you can hear an angry tone in someone’s voice or see their face get red, but you cannot tangibly sense the underlying emotion … you only get the symptoms.

KNOWING SOMEONE IS ANGRY IS NOT THE SAME AS UNDERSTANDING WHY THEY FEEL THAT ANGER …

Any approach which leaves out the emotional side of life seems incomplete.

-John E. Smith, as excerpted from here