In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus must pass between Charybdis, a treacherous whirlpool, and Scylla, a horrid human-eating, cliff-dwelling monster.
And so was born
that cliched term, ‘caught between a rock and a hard place’, implying the difficulty of choice when no outcome appears to be advantageous. In fact, at times, the choices available to us are blatantly awful and our thoughts are consumed with what we know will be lost. We don’t always know when something is going to turn out positively for us, but we tend
Browsing category: Feelings
"The violets explode inside me when I meet your eyes. Then I am spinning and I'm diving, like a cloud of starlings. Darling is this love?" Elbow, Starlings
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." Mary Tyler Moore, American film actress, producer and social advocate
"You like because and you love despite." William Faulkner
“This being human is a guest house, every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honourably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
- Rumi
Using this analogy of your consciousness as a house and your emotions and feelings being guests who visit, there are
"I like living. I have sometimes been widely, despairingly, acutely miserable, raked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes a result. It's vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear." Michelle Obama
If, like me, you have a fondness for clever, animated films, you will have experienced a range of emotions watching the ingenious and artfully designed Pixar movie, Inside Out. It is here we meet the five dominant emotions that run humans: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness and Joy, as they play havoc in the life of a young girl moving through the stages of human transformation. Smart researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have dedicated study on emotions and the subtleties that exist between different feelings. They