[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by BeyondBewildered

I just re read the original post, and found something I don't agree with. I don't like the notion that thoughts are ego, but feelings are spirit. Just like I don't like it when people decide that the human process of logic is somehow superior to emotions. I think it's all ego.

So ego is also feelings for you? I have noticed when I tune into my body and feel the energy of life in me, I am not thinking. Also, depending on how peaceful I can get, I start to feel my sense of self expanding - that I feel a connection to my environment. I am not trying to define myself so much and the ego is like filo dough.

But then again, you could be using the word feelings to describe the indescribable. I have "feelings" that I "feel" totally differently from emotions. It isn't a feeling, and there isn't way to really "think" about it or define it with words or feel it with normal emotions.

I would venture to say emotions are stuck feelings. Resistance to what is, creates a tension in the body to the spiritual flow and shows up as emotions that start to pill up and makes the ego either get addicted to that or try really hard to avoid those emotions, which amounts to projecting and denning and separating. Feelings, I would say, is acceptance of or more like surrendering to what is in such a way that the feeling is brief and like a stream flowing through you. perhaps.

When I say spirit, I mean the real you. That isn't a good word though, but I lack a better one. Maybe "essence" would be better.

Yeah, well, spirit is one of the labels. it could be God, source, oneness, essence, true self, source, quantum field, being, that which is not manifested...