Feeling feelings
The ability to feel, to feel even pain, is more blessed than the inability to feel at all, be it pain, pleasure, joy!
Feeling informs our inner and outer selves. Feeling formulates and fashions. Feeling, an innate form of knowledge, is akin to teleology. That is to say, feeling perceives, projects its own ends, its ulterior designs, interpreted by its feelings.
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Lacking of feeling handicaps. Its lack even heightens vulnerability to, susceptibility for, disease, injury, death. Here, I speak of spiritual, physical, emotional, personal, social feelings and any tributaries.