There is a Promethean dimension to helping others learn to feel. Both fire and feeling bring with them a new sense of ardor and chaos, new protection and new danger. Unless we have a sense of the tragedy of feeling, our zeal for it is bound to have a cruel edge.
Part of the terror of authentic feeling is that it gives the self at once a sovereign center and an immediate intuition of vulnerability.
The right to bare feelings is a more fundamental constitutional liberty than the right to bear arms.
Nothing is less logical than acting as if we did not feel.
The contagion of feeling is one of the most fundamental and underappreciated facts of social life. We find so much of ourselves by catching others’ states of being.