Piglet: "How do you spell love?"
Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel
it."
When Piglet asks Pooh the question, "How do you spell love?" Pooh responds by stating, "You don't spell it, you feel it." This exchange is a profound one indeed. Within the confines of the typical expression of the battle between the brain and the heart. It can be said that in this circumstance, if Piglet is symbolizing the brain. Then by contrast, Pooh is symbolizing the heart.
Pooh is trying to teach Piglet that when it comes to matters of feeling. Thinking, or to be specific, rationalizing, will cause one to deviate from experiencing the emotion in its truest and purest sense. To take it a step further, when one starts to rationalize one has seized to feel truly.
Piglet opens by asking Pooh a question of a logical nature. He asks Pooh how to spell the word love. Which by default even if someone knew how to spell that word, it would still take a degree of thought and logic no matter how brief or minute to spell the word out. Pooh then responds to Piglet by stating that love is not something that you spell but something that you feel. Feeling, which is devoid of faculties or impositions of logic.
Even though people are typically characterized as emotional (heart) creatures, in the end people tend to follow whatever their calculation of cost vs benefit tells them (brain). So in essence, although the initial reaction most people may have to a given situation or circumstance is in fact an emotional one. The brain eventually takes over and tries to apply logic.
Therein lies the fundamental dilemma of the battle between the brain and the heart. When it comes to truly feeling things, if one tries to think of how and why one is feeling what they are feeling. Then they will not experience the emotion in its entirety. And will instead impose various preferences and biases. Thus, cheapening love, in its expression and its reception for yourself and for others.
When Piglet asks Pooh the question, "How do you spell love?" Pooh responds by stating, "You don't spell it, you feel it." This exchange is a profound one indeed. Within the confines of the typical expression of the battle between the brain and the heart. It can be said that in this circumstance, if Piglet is symbolizing the brain. Then by contrast, Pooh is symbolizing the heart.
Pooh is trying to teach Piglet that when it comes to matters of feeling. Thinking, or to be specific, rationalizing, will cause one to deviate from experiencing the emotion in its truest and purest sense. To take it a step further, when one starts to rationalize one has seized to feel truly.
Piglet opens by asking Pooh a question of a logical nature. He asks Pooh how to spell the word love. Which by default even if someone knew how to spell that word, it would still take a degree of thought and logic no matter how brief or minute to spell the word out. Pooh then responds to Piglet by stating that love is not something that you spell but something that you feel. Feeling, which is devoid of faculties or impositions of logic.
Even though people are typically characterized as emotional (heart) creatures, in the end people tend to follow whatever their calculation of cost vs benefit tells them (brain). So in essence, although the initial reaction most people may have to a given situation or circumstance is in fact an emotional one. The brain eventually takes over and tries to apply logic.
Therein lies the fundamental dilemma of the battle between the brain and the heart. When it comes to truly feeling things, if one tries to think of how and why one is feeling what they are feeling. Then they will not experience the emotion in its entirety. And will instead impose various preferences and biases. Thus, cheapening love, in its expression and its reception for yourself and for others.
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