The essence of marriage is to share a common dream for the future. Knowing that the person we love is part of that future dream, that we will never be alone, is an incredibly reassuring feeling. In my opinion, this is the most valuable psychological aspect of marriage. On the other hand, sharing a common...
In my article last month, I mentioned that biologically we possess a wide range of emotions, including love and hate, pride and shame, anger and forgiveness, responsibility and indifference, guilt and peace. I also wrote that experiencing all emotions appropriately means being spiritually alive. I promised to discuss how the inability to feel these emotions...
Psychologically, we define being alive as being able to feel appropriate emotions in response to the events we experience. In other words, if a person can feel love, anger, peace, fear, pleasure, shame, sadness, and guilt, then they are spiritually alive. As humans, our biological codes endow us with pairs of emotions: love-hate, pleasure-unease, shame-pride,...
