Emotional Intimacy Quotes

“Where feeling is reaction, emotion is adaptation. So feeling is an instantaneous, nonreflective (there’s no time for reflection!) arising, but emotion is all about how we handle that feeling.”
― Robert Augustus Masters, Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions

“The fiery intensity at the heart of anger asks neither for smothering nor mere discharge, but for a mindful embrace that does not require any dilution of passion, any lowering of the heat, nor any muting of the essential voice in the flames.”
― Robert Augustus Masters, Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions

“Emotion is far more verb than noun, being not some entity or thing we can get out of our system but a vital process always in some degree of flux.”
― Robert Augustus Masters, Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions