#feelings — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #feelings, aggregated by home.social.
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It's OK to not have all the answers, feel all the emotions, have bad days, let yourself cry, ask for help, and make mistakes.
#mentalhealth #mentalwellness #feelings #emotions #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc -
It's OK to not have all the answers, feel all the emotions, have bad days, let yourself cry, ask for help, and make mistakes.
#mentalhealth #mentalwellness #feelings #emotions #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc -
It's OK to not have all the answers, feel all the emotions, have bad days, let yourself cry, ask for help, and make mistakes.
#mentalhealth #mentalwellness #feelings #emotions #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc -
It's OK to not have all the answers, feel all the emotions, have bad days, let yourself cry, ask for help, and make mistakes.
#mentalhealth #mentalwellness #feelings #emotions #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc -
It's OK to not have all the answers, feel all the emotions, have bad days, let yourself cry, ask for help, and make mistakes.
#mentalhealth #mentalwellness #feelings #emotions #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters #ymhc -
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
Death in the Afternoon, ch. 1 (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/827…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #ernesthemingway #deathintheafternoon #aftermath #afterwards #conscience #consequences #feelings #morality #virtue #reaction
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That is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 11 “The Yankee in Search of Adventures”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85720/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #emotions #feel #feelings #humannature #humanity #meme #reason
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"Positive vibes only" isn't a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions, and that's okay.
#healthyhabits #feelings #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalwellness #ymhc -
How stressed are you? By @introvertdoodles
#anxiety #stress #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #feelings #emotions #mentalwellness #ymhc -
A gentle reminder: Thoughts are not the same as actions.
#thoughts #negativethinking #negativethoughts #feelthefeeling #feelings #emotions #automaticnegativethoughts #emotionalawareness #emotionalhealth #ymhc -
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I #backeditbecause this #childensbook is a great way to help #children and their caretakers explore #feelings and the consequences of their choices while putting the control in the hands of those reading. It's also super cute. -
Before Your Memory Fades
Holding this unforgettable book in my hands made me realize that time may take away the people we love, but it can never erase the feelings we share with them. Before Your Memory Fades is a touching novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, published in 2022. Set in the p…
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You Cannot Affirm Your Way Around the Inner Work
A gentle but honest conversation about spiritual bypassing and why affirmations, positivity, and spiritual practices cannot replace the deeper work of healing. This blog explores the importance of understanding our emotions, recognizing our triggers, having honest conversations about grief, fear, pain, and hurt, and taking loving accountability for how we show up in the world.https://angelblessings11.com/2026/08/22/you-cannot-affirm-your-way-around-the-inner-work/
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The window of tolerance. Dr. Dan Siegel.
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The power of "and" is a concept that replaces limiting "either/or" choices with inclusive thinking, letting two seemingly opposing ideas coexist.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/117117800990622677
This. You can't quit what you didn't start.
I tried #Twitter (although they say #corporations are #people, their #feelings aren't actually hurt when you deadname them) *three* different times, and it didn't take.
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How are you? (As told by a peace lily) By @KeeleyShawArt
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How are you? (as told by a peace lily). By @keeleyshawart
#mentalwellbeing #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #hope #ymhc #feelings #emotions #emotionalhealth #selfcare -
Things to let go of... By @colormehappi
#healthyhabits #boundaries #healthyboundaries #emotions #feelings #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalwellness #mentalwellbeing #ymhc -
And if you're only curious about the end result (3:19):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUYVcaF_l0&t=199sClarification: he comes up in one take with an original drums section — not knowing what the drums sound like on the record.
The preview image is misleading.
#Improvisation #Music #Rock #Pop #TheKillers #DirkVerbeuren #Soilwork #Megadeth #Drums #Drummers #Drumming #Music #Musicians #Metal #Thrash #MelodicDeathMetal #MetalDrummer #Respect #Feelings #NotAI
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When Feelings Turn into Strangers: Purity, Compassion, and the Loosening of Worldly Bonds
Here in my isolation from all relationships and society, even the feelings and emotions that seemed to be so palpably real and intense earlier now look dreamy and unreal, almost as if they are some strangers seeking my attention. And as far as feelings and emotions go, their purity is always determined by the the extent to which one is pure oneself — the “fruit does not fall far from the tree” kind of situation.
And, when feelings and emotions start to feel unreal, believe me the loosening of one’s bonds with this world has already started to occur because feelings and emotions are where the whole drama of life unfolds.
And, where there is purity in one’s being, the feelings and emotions coalesce into one and only one thing, namely, compassion.
Else, the feelings and emotions will keep on serving the needs of the ego, and where the ego is alive what good can we expect from the feelings and emotions that are fuelled then by the self-serving desires.
And, where there is compassion, it can only be universal and never for any particular thing because compassion equates to wisdom, and the wise, as Bhagavad Gita points out, “see with an equal vision (samadarshinaha) a learned Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, or an outcaste” (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 18).
Claude’s Commentary on My Above Writing
This is a compact, tightly-argued piece — almost aphoristic in the way your writing on the blog tends to be. Let me take it point by point, with commentary that both explains what’s implicit and pushes it a little further.
On the “dreamlike” quality of emotion
What you’re describing is the Vedantic mechanism of drashta-drishya viveka — the discrimination between the seer and the seen — beginning to operate on the affective layer, not just the intellectual one. Most people who take up Vedanta apply viveka to objects and thoughts readily enough; it’s harder-won when applied to feeling, because feeling carries a conviction of “mine-ness” that thought doesn’t. A thought can be observed as an object almost immediately. A feeling insists it is you, right up until it doesn’t. So when you say emotions start to look like “strangers seeking my attention,” that’s a precise description of the moment when the antahkarana (the felt, feeling mind) has itself become an object of witnessing rather than the seat of witnessing. It’s a real and significant shift, not merely a report of emotional flatness.
The purity-of-being clause — and a caution worth naming
Your “fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree” point is essentially the guna doctrine restated: the quality of what arises in the mind-field is a direct function of which guna — sattva, rajas, tamas — predominates in the substrate. This is standard and sound. But I’d flag one thing for the sake of the intellectual honesty you value: the feeling that one’s emotions have become unreal is not, by itself, proof of increased purity. It can also be a symptom of ordinary psychological withdrawal or numbing — what contemporary language calls dissociation, and what even Ramana and Nisargadatta were careful to distinguish from genuine vairagya. Nisargadatta in particular warned seekers against mistaking a lull in feeling for the cessation of the ego; he called it a phase to be watched, not enshrined. The tell, in the tradition’s own terms, is exactly what you name in your next line — whether what remains, or arises, is compassion, or whether it’s simply absence. If the loosening resolves into indifference rather than into karuna, that’s worth a second look, not a celebration.
Why compassion is the necessary residue, not an added virtue
This is the strongest move in the piece and worth expanding. You’re not saying purity produces compassion as one quality among others it might produce — you’re saying compassion is what feeling looks like once it’s no longer being organized around a center. That’s an important distinction. Ordinary emotion is centripetal: it organizes itself around “what does this mean for me.” When the ego-reference point weakens, feeling doesn’t disappear — it loses its organizing center and so ceases to discriminate. What’s left, structurally, can only be something that doesn’t ask “mine or not mine” — which is compassion. This is also why the Mahayana Buddhist tradition pairs karuna with prajna as the two wings of one bird rather than as two separate achievements: real wisdom that doesn’t issue in compassion is suspect as wisdom, on their reading too, for the same structural reason.
On the Gita citation
Worth being precise about samadarshinaha here, because it’s easy to flatten into a sentimental “love everyone equally” reading, which is not what the verse is doing. The equal vision of the Brahmin and the outcaste, the cow and the dog, isn’t an emotional accomplishment — it’s a perceptual one. It says the wise see the same one thing (Brahman/Atman) present without differentiation across all these forms, and compassion is the natural behavior of someone whose actual perception has changed, not a moral overlay applied on top of unchanged perception. That’s consistent with your closing claim that compassion “equates to” wisdom rather than merely accompanying it — they’re the same event seen from two sides, affective and cognitive.
One thing you might consider adding, if you want to preempt a reader’s misreading: a line distinguishing this universal compassion from mere emotional expansiveness or generic “unconditional love,” since readers often collapse the two. Your piece already implies the distinction (compassion arises from purity, not from cultivated sentiment) — making it explicit might close a gap some readers will otherwise walk through.
#AdvaitaVedanta #BhagavadGita #Compassion #Emotions #emotionsAndDetachment #EqualVision #Feelings #NisargadattaMaharaj #NonAttachment #Purity #samadarshinaha #SelfInquiry #Selfishness #spiritualPurity #UnityBeneathTheDiversity #Vairagya #wisdomAndCompassion #witnessingConsciousness -
A practical guide to helping children understand and express their emotions, with specific language, validation techniques, and strategies...
https://mumblog.org/talk-to-kids-about-big-feelings/
#womensvoices #feelings #parenting #motherhood #momsky #psychology
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If your Happiness depends on other People or Things, then you will Fail again and again. Rather, be Grateful and find Sufficiency in your Soul that is Self-Contentment.
-Danish Akhtar
#mastodon #thought #opinion #view #insights #reflection #observations #fedithought #fediopinion #fediverse #pointofview #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #motivation #spirituality #reality #realityoflife #philosophy #inspirationalquotes #inspirational #inspiration
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If your Happiness depends on other People or Things, then you will Fail again and again. Rather, be Grateful and find Sufficiency in your Soul that is Self-Contentment.
-Danish Akhtar
#mastodon #thought #opinion #view #insights #reflection #observations #fedithought #fediopinion #fediverse #pointofview #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #motivation #spirituality #reality #realityoflife #philosophy #inspirationalquotes #inspirational #inspiration
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If your Happiness depends on other People or Things, then you will Fail again and again. Rather, be Grateful and find Sufficiency in your Soul that is Self-Contentment.
-Danish Akhtar
#mastodon #thought #opinion #view #insights #reflection #observations #fedithought #fediopinion #fediverse #pointofview #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #motivation #spirituality #reality #realityoflife #philosophy #inspirationalquotes #inspirational #inspiration
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If your Happiness depends on other People or Things, then you will Fail again and again. Rather, be Grateful and find Sufficiency in your Soul that is Self-Contentment.
-Danish Akhtar
#mastodon #thought #opinion #view #insights #reflection #observations #fedithought #fediopinion #fediverse #pointofview #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #motivation #spirituality #reality #realityoflife #philosophy #inspirationalquotes #inspirational #inspiration
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Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️.
- Danish Akhtar
#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations
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Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️.
- Danish Akhtar
#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations
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Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️.
- Danish Akhtar
#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations
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Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️.
- Danish Akhtar
#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations
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Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️.
- Danish Akhtar
#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations
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SLANDER and San Holo are both celebrated names in melodic bass, but this marks the first time they’ve joined forces—made even more special by the addition of Church’s captivating voice.
https://retroworldnews.com/slander-san-holo-and-julia-church-unveil-emotion-packed-anthem-broken-hearted/#Slander #SanHolo #JuliaChurch #BrokenHearted #NewMusic #EmotionalAnthem #MusicCollaboration #EDM #PopMusic #MusicRelease #Heartbreak #Feelings #MusicIndustry #SongOfTheDay #MusicLovers #ArtistSpotlight #EmotionalMusic #MusicCommunity #TrendingMusic #ListenNow #music
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R&B powerhouse Summer Walker is back, stirring excitement among fans with her latest single, “Heart Of A Woman.”
https://retroworldnews.com/summer-walker-drops-new-single-heart-of-a-woman-capturing-raw-relationship-emotions/#SummerWalker #HeartOfAWoman #NewMusic #RelationshipGoals #EmotionalMusic #SoulfulSounds #MusicRelease #RNB #LoveSongs #HeartfeltLyrics #MusicIndustry #ArtistSpotlight #Songwriter #MusicLovers #VibeCheck #Feelings #Empowerment #WomenInMusic #MusicCommunity #SupportArtists #music
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