| BkI:16.VI.2 | There is another reason that you stir up the fire of passions and cling to emotions and impulses. Recall that the energy you call emotion is but misguided spiritual energy, energy separated from God. You have lost the consciousness of being, you have lost awareness of your soul, because you wanted to experience autonomy. You have denied your soul. By denying it you perceive yourself as being without a soul. You experience an inner emptiness that prevents you from feeling yourself. And so you look for ways to feel something that you can call "I" to compensate for that absence. Not to have a soul is not to exist. To cease to exist is annihilation. Your fear of nonexistence is so great that you have created a universe of emotion and impulses that, together with the body, form a psychosomatic being you call "my being." Nothing at that level is true. Nevertheless, all that you have created is neutral. |