I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much. - Sam Keen

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.

Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.