“Feelings need expression not repression. It is sometimes tempting to avoid the expression for the fear of loss. Stare loss in the face and do it anyway. So often , I lean towards not sharing a feeling especially if I determine that it will cause me loss in any way. When I realize that the outcome is not the point, but the process of sharing feelings, I can step forward bravely. All of your feelings are acceptable.”

“What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.”
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

“His heart runs away with his head”
*George Coleman (1762-1836)

“It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
The important things are invisible to the naked eye”
*The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

“First feelings are always most natural”
*Louis XIV (1638-1715)

Our “feel”ings tell us how we are and how we “feel” about things on an emotional level, yet sometimes we are inundated by so many feelings at once and sometimes they are conflicting. As the King said, the first feelings we have are usually the most reliable when we are trying to establish our most honest response to something. I know, that the feelings I face are because I am going to loose something dear to me, but I face them as bravely as I can. When we know that something bad is going to happen we sometimes dry up our feelings with activity cloths, with dispassion cloths or with denial cloths. I am sure there are many more cloths. We use them instead of using what we feel to carry us over and beyond the waves of emotion into the sea of getting on with life again. It is the process of our emotions and feelings that make the voyage possible, and bearable. We only need to be brave enough to make one voyage at a time.