The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, "No feeling is final." Our emotions can be riddles. Wikipedia provides the following definition of a riddle: "a statement, or a question, or a phrase that has a double or veiled meaning and requires a solution." Sometimes it takes ingenuity to solve. When I am in a difficult emotional state, I often find that the symbolic interpretation of an object helps me to look at it objectively.
One of my favorite metaphors on emotions and ego dates back to ancient times. According to this myth, a person consists of four parts: a chariot, horses, a charioteer and a Gentleman who is being carried in this chariot. The chariot symbolizes the body that carries you through life. Horses symbolize emotions and passions that pull you in different directions. The driver is the ego: while the Master is sleeping, it is the driver who decides where to go. The master represents the true self, the higher self, which is asleep and cannot influence the journey. But when the Master wakes up, he must take the charioteer under control and tell him where to go and what to pay attention to.
You have to ask yourself one fundamental question: "Who controls the horses—the passions and emotions—in my life?" Maybe it's always the awake driver, that is, the ego? Or is it, Sir, the most developed and inspired part of you that is too often dormant?
Ego is not necessarily a bad thing. As a driver, he may have good experience managing your passions and body, which will help you achieve success in the shortest possible time. But I know that when my emotions are racing, whether I'm happy or not, the driver is responsible.
The ego reacts. The soul responds. An experience or a thought creates a reaction, and it leads to an emotion, all in the blink of an eye. And if your thought is some kind of obsessive belief, whether it's "the world is dangerous, I need to protect myself" (leading to fear and anxiety) or "I'm wonderful and everyone needs me" (leading to narcissism), then your reaction is so habitual that you won't notice how you turn into an emotional robot. When a Gentleman is at the helm, emotions are not caused by spontaneous reactions — they correspond to my condition. When I act based on my condition, I think less about achieving quick results and getting benefits.
The writer Philip Yancey, who has researched the nature of faith, suggested that during a crisis, "the power of our emotional response is able to release the grip in which the world holds us... The crisis helps to reveal the foundation on which we build our lives." If your ego is involved in creating emotional equations, you are like a weather vane changing its direction depending on the wind. Marcus Aurelius advised: "Try to see before it's too late that there is something higher and more divine inside you than the primitive instincts that guide your feelings and twist you like a doll." Keep this in mind as you create your own emotional equation, which can become a mantra for you in both good and bad times. Film in 4K con audio italiano https://alt-4k.com disponibile per il download tramite link diretti.
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