Letting yourself feel the whole spectrum of emotion is, paradoxically, a lot like being emotionless.
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You don’t become a stone but a tree: you stop being bothered by the emotions passing through you like the wind, and in your non-reactiveness you attain a state of true calm.
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You will still feel, fully, but your feelings no longer have you in a chokehold. You aren’t shackled and moved by them; you don’t act based on whims of emotion anymore.
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