Tuesday, 4 January 2022

We cannot learn how to feel

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

e.e. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised


Water's Emotional Sway ~ Eric Zener

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