Quotes — Emotions

• "It is not feelings that are the problem, but what we do with them that matters. The freedom to deal with them and to confront them with reason and faith is what makes us fully human."

  — Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "Normally, emotions need to be expressed in some way in order to be processed. Emotions are energy. If they are not processed, they become blocks in our bodies and nervous systems to the free flow of our energy systems and of grace."

  — Father Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "…conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "The human being is not something to be overcome, but undergone."

  — Simon Critchley

  On the Human Condition, Dominique Janicaud

• "The human condition is defined by the feelings and emotions associated with our existence, our “conscious” experience of past and future, cognizance of the passage of time, and our vexed awareness of our mortality."

  — Robert G. Bednarik

  The Human Condition

• "Emotion skills are the key to unlocking the potential inside each one of us."

  — Marc Brackett

  Permission to Feel

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