Reading from The Mandala of Being, Rev. Patrick quotes Richard Moss about our emotions:
"We are enlightened only to the degree that we are able to fully experience and not become identified with and captured by our emotions.
"We evolve in consciousness by turning toward our immediate experience and learning to be present yet non-reactive."
Tamed emotion is simply the emotion that we are used to. It is that which we can identify and name. Untamed emotion is a feeling that we cannot readily separate ourselves from. Drowning, desolation, disillusion, terror, annihilation, suffocation, free-floating anxiety. Yet even in the experience of untamed emotion, there is a place within all of us that is untouched, that feels good at all times. That is our centre, our grounding, the Divine Grace.
"Yesterday ended last night. Only the negative should go. Take time to look and think. The past is great with good, and to meet your past, that is fine, but you can never return. The world will not do you any good. It is too easy to go the world's way. Stand still and know what the world doesn't know." -- Raymond Charles Barker
