Pruning Fruitless Emotion

January 14, 2005

Too good not to mark in passing, Dr. Sanity on the "I feel, therefore it is" syndrome.

One Cosmos' Gaghdad cites Richard Weaver.

If we attach more significance to feeling than thinking, we shall soon attach more to wanting than deserving.

There is a tremendous benefit to the focus on deserving, not applied to others, but to oneself. What have I done, what could I do, even to approach deserving the benefits I enjoy? How shall I repay my life?

Discovered serendipitously at Hallowed Ground, this from Wendell Berry:

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees ...

Tasting sweet desserts from orchard's fruit. Now that's a good feeling. Ideas do have consequences. Even if I don't feel they do, or should.

Comments

[patry Francis]

Isn't Wendell Berry wonderful? His poems demand so little of the reader and give so much.