(October 8, 2017 at 7:35 pm)Hammy Wrote:(October 8, 2017 at 7:28 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: You agreed earlier that we needed a positive experience to truly make our lives good and beautiful. That would be a positive state of mind.
Yes, and yes.
Quote: You would need a real quality of it there to truly make your life good and beautiful rather than defining your life as good and beautiful.
Yes. So this "inner light" shit is pointless if the emotions aren't there.
Quote: As I said before, if you had no positive emotion and no positive experience, then your life can only be nothing.
Yes I know.
But minimizing suffering is more important. Avoiding negative experiences is more important.
In an ideal world we'd all have maximum positive emotion. But we don't live in an ideal world. A more realistic goal is to start by eliminating the negatives and being reasonably happy. And it's going to be difficult to function normally and healthily and move beyond reasonably happy.
As for me, I had no positive emotion and no positive experience there during my miserable moments regardless of the fact that I believed the idea of getting help to be something good and beautiful. So, I am the unfortunate one here since, in the absence of my positive emotions, I cannot have a positive experience during my miserable moments.
