Too long have the realms of emotion and intellect been cut off and put at odds! Let them return to their long ago companionship, the friendly banter, communicating as in childhood. The intellect learns from emotion. Let’s hope they both look to the Spirit (God, that is) as their guide. That sounded a little New Age-y… sorry.
NY Times columnist David Brooks postulates that the emotional education we obtain through life, culture, and media influences our lives in the day to day far more and for much longer, than our formal education does. C.S. Lewis and others insert subtle intellectual themes into their writing, using emotional connection with the unconscious self to reach into the mind in a deep and impactful way. And God, is He not revealed in nature? Nature that draws us; artistic aesthetics that do not appeal to the intellect, but in some indefinable way, they do influence the mind. God has made Himself experiential as a human man and through His creation because He is incomprehensible.
Wisdom gives voice to what stirs in the heart, it grasps what has been intangible. It takes hold of spiritual concepts and puts them into a form that is usable. It also allows what is ungraspable through the brain to be soaked into the spirit.
An action is preceded by a thought, and a thought by… what? A concept? Of what substance is a concept, before it is handled and examined then packed into a tidy little word? Is not the intellect confined to words? But, as deep calls unto deep, spirit understands what is spiritual.
I’m not sure how this got started.
Hey that paragraph about wisdom is right on, I've never heard about wisdom in this way, if you have more to say about that, I think you should, I'd like to hear it....plus is the intellect confined to words? I guess it depends on the definition of the intellect.
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