Feel ... This is the same as to smell, feel, hear. It refers us to the senses, to that which helps us to perceive our world - external and internal.
Feelings allow us to establish a subjective connection with the phenomenon. Subjectivity here is something that belongs only to us and may not be the result of a logical judgment.
First of all, feelings are associated with evaluation. They can be divided into two groups: positive and negative. Reactions to these feelings can be of two kinds: attraction or longing; repulsion or avoidance. They force us to divide the world into attractive and repulsive and act accordingly.
Feeling is so closely connected with action that it is sometimes very difficult to separate one from the other. As a rule, people treat feelings as something that cannot be felt. But these are just our feelings, to which we give emotional coloring. Any of them can be described in physical terms by size, weight, color, consistency. Of course, these descriptions will not be objective. Feeling is always individual, it belongs to our body, arises in it and therefore is knowledge.
In order to understand the further message of this article, I would like to separate the mind and feelings, despite the fact that they are interacting elements. Feelings are something that is given to us from birth. With the arrival in this world, we already have the opportunity and ability for its sensory evaluation. The mind, on the other hand, is an object brought in from the external environment. I would say this: with feeling we color the world, and with reason we form, collect and explain it. These are objects that have different properties, which is why it is sometimes impossible to explain feelings with the help of reasonable definitions.
Throughout the article I will pay attention to the dual aspect manifested in man. We started with the duality of responding to feelings - attraction or repulsion, conditionally divided a person into two aspects - mind and feelings. And now it's time to pay attention to two more aspects that coexist in a person - essence and personality.
When a person emerges from the mother's womb, he is wholly an entity, but as soon as he takes the first breath, takes the first look and hears the first sounds, a personality immediately begins to grow in him. The formation of personality is a consequence of the informational nutrition of a person.
Essence cannot be explained, it can only be felt. In the field of essence, there are definitions of fate and life purpose. It is impossible to speak about essence in words. It gives us pure energy. We often use the definitions "the heart felt", "the way of the heart", "the heart prompted". The chest area is the heart chakra, the place where our feelings reside and are felt. They are a connection with the more subtle planes of being.
Personality shapes the world around. Formed from the informational food that we consume, it "gathers our world", protects and strengthens us. What we swallow and make our own, or what others plant in us, becomes our personality.
The longer we live, the more the way we perceive the world and react to external events is dictated by personality. Moreover, I argue that the more a person's point of existence is shifted towards the personality, the more dependent he is on external influences.
Personality is important, but only as an interpreter and protector, in fact, for most people, it turns into a strict overseer.
As you already understood, we can say that the personality is formed by the rational sphere, and the essence - by the sensual. The voice of the essence can be heard by listening to your body, and therefore, to your sensual-emotional sphere.
When we walk into a bookstore, we see that about a fifth of its shelves are filled with literature that contains advice "how to succeed in ten days." If at least one of these books worked 100%, then the need for all the others would simply disappear. But they continue to write and print. Why don't they work?
At this point, it is time to pay attention to two aspects: what and when to do?
What to do?
If the recipes that worked were the same, then we could apply them to any situation and to any person. But the finished solution is information from the realm of the mind - a template. Perceiving information only with the mind, we simply swallow it without chewing or tasting it, after which we try to apply it without realizing whether it suits us.
In this respect the mind is blind. He is responsible for knowledge, helping us to define the world and explain it to ourselves. But the mind is a product swallowed by us, a framework that protects, but without the use of feelings, makes it impossible to improvise. Guided by it, we can act. One way or another, but making reasonable decisions is always a roulette, in the worst case, beating your head against the wall.
Why roulette?
Roulette, because, getting inside and becoming part of us, an object from the sphere of reason makes us static, reflecting in the same doing, and the external environment is changeable. Thus, acting in the same way in conditions of external variability, we cannot control the result.
Banging our heads against the wall happens when we act over and over again on the basis of what we have swallowed, without getting a result, we are disappointed and take up the same doing again. Like a clockwork toy.
When to do?
The generalized theory of divinity in occultism, Vedic religions, and esoteric Buddhism is that man is not an individual. The Creator is the whole world. It contains everything that exists, and it, in turn, is a product of differentiation of the Creator. Thus, one cannot say that someone or something acts individually. Any living organism operates within certain limits, even very wide ones.
The Creator is an active element, which means that it acts for a certain time from the past to the future. One can imagine that all the deeds of all living beings in the world are collectively the deeds of the Creator. The doing of every living being, if we accept this theory, is connected with the doing of all other beings, and together they create a flow of doing as a cause for general development and movement.
Summarizing esoteric theories and using my own terminology and personal understanding, I will move on to specifics. Each doing has a reference point - the moment when the individual starts it. Accordingly, the start time of each business affects when we join the general flow of doing. Of course, the flow consists of streams - smaller causal relationships in which other participants are involved, which are the external environment for the individual. These streams are periodically in two stages - active and passive, as, for example, a reservoir is at the stage of ebb or flow, and the pendulum - rise or fall.
If an individual begins to act at a passive stage - an ebb or a fall, then in order to get a result, he will need much more effort than if he acted on an active one. Let me remind you that actions are closely related to energy. Moreover, if the passive stage is at the very beginning, then even titanic efforts may not lead to a suitable result.
I often deal with people who are rather energetic, too intelligent and too reliant on efficiency and effectiveness. The result is almost always the same: they achieve more than the rest, but live with a constant feeling of fatigue, are in a depressed state. We can say that the process takes so much energy that it does not remain to enjoy the result.
How to deal with all this?
Here I will again return to esotericism or, for example, physics, because these sciences, due to the development of the latter, have become very close. The Creator manifests itself in the objective world in the form of threefold energy.
In Vedic sources, this energy is called trimurti - the Hindu trinity, uniting the gods of the Hindu pantheon Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Guardian and Shiva the Destroyer.
These same aspects can be described as the properties of the electric current - positive, negative and neutralizing aspects. They are part of a single whole. In this case, the neutralizing aspect manifests itself when the positive and negative are in interaction.
In the same way, a person must be the subject of the relationship between mind and feelings, the point of their contact, giving rise to his movement through life and harmony.
As you understand, it is impossible to give clear instructions here, since all of them are a product of the mind, which means they will have “blind spots”, but if you read closely, I will try to give an idea of the practice. To do this, we return to our two questions: what to do and when to do it?
What to do?
If certain actions sometimes work and sometimes don't, then they're not working.
As I have already noted, if in the conditions of a changing reality you perform static actions that are “swallowed” by you, you will not get a sustainable result. It can be sales, team management, relationships with friends, sex ...
All that needs to be done to begin with is to remove non-working actions from the fabric of doing.
It is very easy to do this. Observe from the outside your actions in any problematic area for you and write everything down in detail on paper. Pick out the repetitive activities that don't work, and cut them out of the fabric of your doing for a few days.
I assure you that if you allow yourself to do nothing for a few days, your world will not collapse. But I can also guarantee that you will experience a surge of energy due to the fact that non-working things have stopped “drinking” you.
Spend the freed time on things that work, or at least those that bring you a guaranteed result, no matter what it is expressed in. It can be anything, the main thing is that it should give results and please the heart.
When doing this process brings you to balance—a stable emotional state—you can start planning another doing.
Let us focus on an important intermediate aspect - a stable emotional state.
The fact is that in our reality there is another esoteric law: like attracts like. When planning any action, being in a state of emotional instability, you release a negative energy charge, so karma (causation) is likely to lead you to a negative result. There is nothing worse than acting in a state of negative energy.
Let's go back to planning another doing. At this stage, you need to come up with and plan actions that will replace the broken ones. There are two ways of inventing these cases - subtle and gross. Both are effective and complementary. They can be used depending on the situation.
The subtle way is as follows: by allowing your consciousness to float freely, you decide for yourself and make a promise to yourself that the ways of new doing will come to you in the form of an idea, considerations, and set aside a certain time for this.
The main point in the subtle planning of another doing is that it is possible only if you allow yourself to be light, that is, if you do not internally adjust yourself and count on an immediate result. This moment is very important, without it the subtle method stops working. This happens because this way of inventing belongs to the sensual sphere, which means that it is impossible to act in it with rational and rigid instruments.
The subtle way is more difficult, it involves the sensual sphere, which you may not have developed, therefore it does not always work. If the subtle way doesn't work, then you need to move on to the rough way.
Again I will draw your attention to two elements - feelings and reason. If feelings do not work, we turn to the mind for protection.
The crude way is that the non-working actions are replaced with polar ones, that is, you need to replace them with opposite ones. This way is also a roulette, because it belongs to the realm of the mind, but doing the opposite creates a dynamic, changes your mental state and leads to other consequences, expanding your views.
And so, using the described methods, you have determined a new doing for yourself. At this point, you can move on to the second stage.
When to do?
This is an equally important point, because, as I have already noted, starting an action in the passive stage of the flow, falling or ebb, we risk spending more energy or getting no result at all.
To determine the correct beginning of doing, it is necessary to listen to the sensual side - the essence. It is she who is connected with the more subtle planes of being, only with her help can we determine the right moment to start doing.
The right moment to start doing is determined by intention
Intention is an element of coordination of positive and negative energy, essence and personality.
The essential aspect of intention is that you have to allow yourself to wait as long as you like for the right moment. The right attitude is to turn into a hunter for such a moment.
You need to feel when it is time to take the planned action.
The hunter knows how to wait. The best hunter is relaxed, but his attention is focused on the moment the prey appears. Watch predators in nature. They can sit in ambush for a day, but when they see the victim, they show all possible achievements in order to grab it. This is the personal - rational aspect.
Steadfast action is the second aspect of intention. This means that at the moment of making the decision to start the action, you must apply all the efforts you have to achieve the result - go to the end.
Going to the end means doing your best to achieve a result with the knowledge that the time allotted for its achievement is running out. There is a recession ahead, a passive stage, an ebb: if the actions are delayed, the prey will run away.
The final element is the “don’t bang your head against the wall” rule. If you act as efficiently as possible, but the result is not achieved or is given by titanic efforts, then you are in the passive stage or the actions you take are not working. In this case, you need to return to the beginning of the two processes described in this article.
In conclusion, I want to emphasize that the world in which we live is a very generous vessel filled with opportunities. There is an infinite abundance in it, but it becomes available only when we reconcile two beautiful human qualities - feelings and reason.
Reason is king and feelings are queen. The king must relinquish control, just as a smart husband, being the head, allows his wife to become the neck. Let your feelings show you the way!
Wise people say that once we were one. And although they “lived” in different bodies, they could feel each other as themselves. And therefore we had neither, nor strife. Because why fight with yourself? Yes, we ourselves are aware of this and consciously or subconsciously we are looking for our soul mate all our lives - a person with whom we will feel like with ourselves, only even better.
Then something like this happened, and we became ourselves existing independently of others, separately, we lost the ability to feel the desires of others. And even the mind and feelings, which were previously a single entity, began to contradict each other.
Therefore, now we live either by reason or by feelings. And together it doesn't work. Thinking with the heart is a luxury that we cannot afford.
If we live by reason, then feelings suffer. Sometimes we say to a person:
You try to explain everything - try to feel it!
- You're too caught up in feelings - turn on your head!
Feelings "reduce" the mind and vice versa. Admiration also reduces the mind.
It also happens: you do or say something under the influence of feelings, and then you think: “Yo-my! What have I done?" We begin to think when we move from the state of feelings to the state of reason.
Or vice versa, did what the mind suggested. And then the feelings make you suffer: “How could I do this?”.
Unfortunately, we cannot exist both in feelings and in mind at the same time. Usually our existence looks like this: did something under the influence of feelings. Then he came out of this state and let's evaluate everything with reason. And vice versa also happens, of course.
This duality depresses and prevents you from enjoying life.. Because, perhaps, men and women are so drawn to each other. Men are carriers of the mind (apparently, this is somehow connected with their biological structure), and women are of feelings. Even if a man is sensitive and a woman is reasonable, their strengths are still: the mind is in the man, and the woman has feelings. And when it turns out to establish such mutually beneficial interaction and distribute areas of responsibility, it turns out very cool.
At the same time, men cannot be considered unemotional. And women are entirely living emotions. If that were the case, then we would never be able to understand each other. Everyone has a little bit of everything: both mind and feelings. It's just better, perhaps, to use your strengths. Unless, of course, there is someone nearby who compensates for your non-use of your weak side.
Men will still look down on a woman, no matter how clever things she says. They will say: “Yes, dear,” - if she is cute, then they can listen, but then they will still add something like: “It’s time for her to get married. To give birth to children, ”they say, they are not engaged in that. And if not pretty, then they will like it even less that she is trying to tell them something clever.
Similarly, women do not take men's emotions seriously. And in such a reaction there is a truth of life.
Because a woman should not hit a man with her mind(attract attention, yes, it’s worth it) or expect him to love her for her intelligence.
In the same way, a man should not expect that a woman will love him for his emotionality or will only admire his emotionality.
Lonely women live both by reason and by feelings. There is no one to entrust them with the analysis of life, decision-making with the mind. In the same way, single men are forced to include an emotional assessment of situations if there is no woman around, although this is worse for them than for women.
Doing something that is unusual for you, maybe at first it’s interesting, like everything is new. But then it starts to press, interfere. It happens that you still get stuck in the middle - neither feelings suggest anything, nor reason. Like in a vacuum. Feelings surrender - the mind does not allow, because. remembers the consequences of past sensory experiences. And the mind does not turn on because the feelings remember how good it is when you live with feelings, and does not want to return to life with the mind.
Apparently, therefore, when people experience sensual pleasures, it is difficult for them to return to the power of the mind. The desires of the mind become unimportant. I don’t want to work, earn money, even provide for myself. In such a situation, men are more likely to be without women and women without men. They do not want to do what is not characteristic of them, because they have already tried in a different way.
It is encouraging that if we were once in the sensation of each other, were united, and even kept the memory of this, in the form of confidence that somewhere there is our soulmate, then so we have a chance to return to this state. As a person who has suffered some kind of trauma, there is a chance to return to a normal, healthy, normal state. There would be a desire. There is a desire?
Direction "Mind and feelings"
An example of an essay on the topic: “Should reason prevail over feelings”?
Should reason take precedence over feelings? In my opinion, there is no single answer to this question. In some situations, you should listen to the voice of reason, and in other situations, on the contrary, you need to act in accordance with feelings. Let's look at a few examples.
So, if a person is possessed by negative feelings, one should curb them, listen to the arguments of reason. For example, A. Mass "Difficult Exam" refers to a girl named Anya Gorchakova, who managed to withstand a difficult test. The heroine dreamed of becoming an actress, she wanted her parents to come to the performance at the children's camp and appreciate her game. She tried very hard, but she was disappointed: on the appointed day, her parents never arrived. Overwhelmed by a sense of desperation, she decided not to go on stage. The reasonable arguments of the teacher helped her cope with her feelings. Anya realized that she should not let her comrades down, she needed to learn to control herself and complete her task, no matter what. And so it happened, she played the best. The writer wants to teach us a lesson: no matter how strong negative feelings are, we must be able to cope with them, listen to the mind, which tells us the right decision.
However, the mind does not always give the right advice. Sometimes it happens that actions dictated by rational arguments lead to negative consequences. Let us turn to A. Likhanov's story "Labyrinth". The father of the protagonist Tolik was passionate about his work. He enjoyed designing machine parts. When he talked about it, his eyes sparkled. But at the same time, he earned little, but he could have moved to the shop and received a higher salary, as his mother-in-law constantly reminded him of. It would seem that this is a more reasonable decision, because the hero has a family, has a son, and he should not depend on the pension of an elderly woman - mother-in-law. In the end, yielding to the pressure of the family, the hero sacrificed his feelings for reason: he abandoned his favorite business in favor of earning money. What did it lead to? Tolik's father felt deeply unhappy: “The eyes are sick and as if calling. They call for help, as if a person is scared, as if he was mortally wounded. If earlier he was possessed by a bright feeling of joy, now it is a deaf longing. This was not the kind of life he dreamed of. The writer shows that decisions that are not always reasonable at first glance are correct, sometimes, listening to the voice of reason, we doom ourselves to moral suffering.
Thus, we can conclude: when deciding whether to act in accordance with reason or feelings, a person must take into account the characteristics of a particular situation.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "Should a person live in obedience to feelings?"
Should a person live in obedience to feelings? In my opinion, there is no single answer to this question. In some situations, one should listen to the voice of the heart, and in other situations, on the contrary, one should not succumb to feelings, one should listen to the arguments of reason. Let's look at a few examples.
So, in the story of V. Rasputin "French Lessons" it is said about the teacher Lidia Mikhailovna, who could not remain indifferent to the plight of her student. The boy was starving and, in order to get money for a glass of milk, he gambled. Lidia Mikhailovna tried to invite him to the table and even sent him a parcel with food, but the hero rejected her help. Then she decided to take extreme measures: she herself began to play with him for money. Of course, the voice of reason could not help but tell her that she was violating the ethical standards of the relationship between teacher and student, transgressing the boundaries of what was permitted, that she would be fired for this. But the feeling of compassion prevailed, and Lidia Mikhailovna violated the generally accepted rules of the teacher's behavior in order to help the child. The writer wants to convey to us the idea that “good feelings” are more important than reasonable norms.
However, sometimes it happens that a person is possessed by negative feelings: anger, resentment. Overwhelmed by them, he commits bad deeds, although, of course, he is consciously aware that he is doing evil. The consequences can be tragic. A. Mass's story "The Trap" describes the act of a girl named Valentina. The heroine has a dislike towards his brother's wife Rita. This feeling is so strong that Valentina decides to set a trap for her daughter-in-law: dig a hole and disguise it so that Rita, having stepped on it, will fall. The girl cannot but understand that she is doing a bad deed, but her feelings take precedence over reason in her. She carries out her plan, and Rita falls into a prepared trap. Only suddenly it turns out that she was in her fifth month of pregnancy and as a result of a fall she could lose a child. Valentina is horrified by what she has done. She did not want to kill anyone, especially a child! "How can I live on?" she asks and finds no answer. The author leads us to the idea that one should not succumb to the power of negative feelings, because they provoke cruel acts, which later will have to be bitterly regretted.
Thus, we can come to the conclusion: you can obey feelings if they are kind, bright; the negative ones should be curbed, listening to the voice of reason.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "The dispute between reason and feeling ..."
The dispute between reason and feeling... This confrontation is eternal. Sometimes the voice of reason turns out to be stronger in us, and sometimes we follow the dictates of feeling. In some situations, there is no right choice. Listening to feelings, a person will sin against moral standards; listening to reason, he will suffer. There may not be a path that would lead to a successful resolution of the situation.
So, in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" the author tells about the fate of Tatyana. In her youth, having fallen in love with Onegin, she, unfortunately, does not find reciprocity. Tatyana carries her love through the years, and finally Onegin is at her feet, he is passionately in love with her. It would seem that she dreamed about it. But Tatyana is married, she is aware of her duty as a wife, she cannot tarnish her honor and the honor of her husband. Reason prevails over her feelings in her, and she refuses Onegin. Above love, the heroine puts moral duty, marital fidelity, but condemns both herself and her lover to suffering. Could the heroes find happiness if she made a different decision? Hardly. A Russian proverb says: “You can’t build your other happiness on misfortune.” The tragedy of the heroine's fate is that the choice between reason and feeling in her situation is a choice without a choice, any decision will only lead to suffering.
Let us turn to the work of N.V. Gogol "Taras Bulba". The writer shows what choice one of the heroes, Andriy, faced. On the one hand, he has a feeling of love for a beautiful Polish woman, on the other hand, he is a Cossack, one of those who besieged the city. The beloved understands that he and Andriy cannot be together: “And I know what your duty and covenant is: your name is father, comrades, fatherland, and we are your enemies.” But Andriy's feelings take precedence over all the arguments of reason. He chooses love, in the name of it he is ready to betray his homeland and family: “What is my father, comrades and homeland to me! .. Fatherland is what our soul is looking for, which is dearest to her. My homeland is you! .. And everything that is, I will sell, give, ruin for such a homeland! The writer shows that a wonderful feeling of love can push a person to terrible deeds: we see that Andriy turns weapons against his former comrades, together with the Poles he fights against the Cossacks, including his brother and father. On the other hand, could he leave his beloved to die of hunger in a besieged city, perhaps become a victim of the cruelty of the Cossacks in the event of its capture? We see that in this situation the right choice is hardly possible, any path leads to tragic consequences.
Summing up what has been said, we can conclude that, reflecting on the dispute between reason and feeling, it is impossible to say unequivocally which should win.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "A great person can also be thanks to his feelings - not only to his mind." (Theodore Dreiser)
"A great person can also be thanks to his feelings - not only to the mind," - Theodore Dreiser argued. Indeed, not only a scientist or commander can be called great. The greatness of a person can be concluded in bright thoughts, the desire to do good. Such feelings as mercy, compassion, can move us to noble deeds. Listening to the voice of feelings, a person helps people around him, makes the world a better place and becomes cleaner himself. I will try to support my idea with literary examples.
In B. Ekimov's story "The Night of Healing", the author tells about the boy Borka, who comes to his grandmother for the holidays. The old woman often sees wartime nightmares in her dreams, and this makes her scream at night. The mother gives the hero reasonable advice: “She will only start talking in the evening, and you shout:“ Be silent! She stops. We tried". Borka is going to do just that, but the unexpected happens: “the boy’s heart was flooded with pity and pain,” as soon as he heard the groans of his grandmother. He can no longer follow reasonable advice, he is dominated by a feeling of compassion. Borka soothes the grandmother until she falls asleep peacefully. He is willing to do this every night so that healing can come to her. The author wants to convey to us the idea of the need to listen to the voice of the heart, to act in accordance with good feelings.
A. Aleksin tells about the same in the story “In the meantime, somewhere ...” The main character Sergei Emelyanov, having accidentally read a letter addressed to his father, learns about the existence of his ex-wife. The woman asks for help. It would seem that Sergei has nothing to do in her house, and his mind tells him to simply return her letter to her and leave. But sympathy for the grief of this woman, once abandoned by her husband, and now by her adopted son, makes him neglect the arguments of reason. Serezha decides to constantly visit Nina Georgievna, help her in everything, save her from the most terrible misfortune - loneliness. And when his father invites him to go on vacation to the sea, the hero refuses. Yes, of course, a trip to the sea promises to be exciting. Yes, you can write to Nina Georgievna and convince her that she should go to the camp with the guys, where she will be fine. Yes, you can promise to come to her during the winter holidays. But a sense of compassion and responsibility takes precedence in him over these considerations. After all, he promised Nina Georgievna to be with her and cannot become her new loss. Sergei is going to hand over a ticket to the sea. The author shows that sometimes actions dictated by a sense of mercy can help a person.
Thus, we come to the conclusion: a big heart, just like a big mind, can lead a person to true greatness. Good deeds and pure thoughts testify to the greatness of the soul.
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An example of an essay on the topic: “Our mind sometimes brings us no less grief than our passions.” (Chamfort)
“Our mind sometimes brings us no less grief than our passions,” Chamfort argued. And indeed, there is grief from the mind. Making a reasonable decision at first glance, a person can make a mistake. This happens when the mind and heart are not in harmony, when all his feelings protest against the chosen path, when, having acted in accordance with the arguments of the mind, he feels unhappy.
Let's turn to literary examples. A. Aleksin in the story "In the meantime, somewhere ..." talks about a boy named Sergey Emelyanov. The protagonist accidentally learns about the existence of his father's ex-wife and about her misfortune. Once her husband left her, and this was a heavy blow for the woman. But now a much more terrible test awaits her. The adopted son decided to leave her. He found his biological parents and chose them. Shurik does not even want to say goodbye to Nina Georgievna, although she raised him from childhood. When he leaves, he takes all his things. He is guided by seemingly reasonable considerations: he does not want to upset his adoptive mother with goodbye, he believes that his things will only remind her of her grief. He realizes that it is difficult for her, but considers it reasonable to live with her newly found parents. Aleksin emphasizes that with his actions, so deliberate and balanced, Shurik inflicts a cruel blow on the woman who loves him selflessly, causing her inexpressible pain. The writer leads us to the idea that sometimes reasonable actions can cause grief.
A completely different situation is described in A. Likhanov's story "Labyrinth". The father of the protagonist Tolik is passionate about his work. He enjoys designing machine parts. When he talks about it, his eyes sparkle. But at the same time, he earns little, but he can move to the shop and receive a higher salary, as his mother-in-law constantly reminds him of. It would seem that this is a more reasonable decision, because the hero has a family, has a son, and he should not depend on the pension of an elderly woman - mother-in-law. In the end, yielding to the pressure of the family, the hero sacrifices his feelings for reason: he refuses his favorite job in favor of earning money. What does this lead to? Tolik's father feels deeply unhappy: “The eyes are sick and as if calling. They call for help, as if a person is scared, as if he was mortally wounded. If earlier he was possessed by a bright feeling of joy, now it is a deaf longing. This is not the kind of life he dreams of. The writer shows that decisions that are not always reasonable at first glance are correct, sometimes, listening to the voice of reason, we doom ourselves to moral suffering.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to express the hope that a person, following the advice of reason, will not forget about the voice of feelings.
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An example of an essay on the topic: “What rules the world - reason or feeling?”
What rules the world - reason or feeling? At first glance, it seems that the mind dominates. He invents, plans, controls. However, man is not only a rational being, but also endowed with feelings. He hates and loves, rejoices and suffers. And it is the feelings that allow him to feel happy or unhappy. Moreover, it is the feelings that make him create, invent, change the world. If there were no feelings, the mind would not create its outstanding creations.
Let us recall the novel by J. London "Martin Eden". The main character studied a lot, became a famous writer. But what prompted him to work on himself day and night, to tirelessly create? The answer is simple: it is the feeling of love. Martin's heart was won by a girl from high society, Ruth Morse. In order to win her favor, to win her heart, Martin tirelessly improves himself, overcomes obstacles, endures need and hunger on the way to writing. It is love that inspires him, helps him find himself and reach the heights. Without this feeling, he would have remained a simple semi-literate sailor, would not have written his outstanding works.
Let's turn to another example. The novel by V. Kaverin "Two Captains" describes how the main character Sanya devoted himself to searching for the missing expedition of Captain Tatarinov. He managed to prove that it was Ivan Lvovich who had the honor of discovering the Northern Land. What prompted Sanya to go to his goal for many years? Cold mind? Not at all. He was driven by a sense of justice, because for many years it was believed that the captain died through his own fault: he "carelessly handled state property." In fact, the true culprit was Nikolai Antonovich, because of which most of the equipment turned out to be unusable. He was in love with the wife of Captain Tatarinov and deliberately doomed him to death. Sanya accidentally found out about this and most of all wanted justice to prevail. It was the sense of justice and love of truth that prompted the hero to relentless search and ultimately led to a historical discovery.
Summing up all that has been said, we can conclude: the world is ruled by feelings. To paraphrase the famous phrase of Turgenev, we can say that only they keep and move life. Feelings induce our mind to create something new, to make discoveries.
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An example of an essay on the topic: “Mind and feelings: harmony or confrontation?” (Chamfort)
Reason and feelings: harmony or confrontation? It seems that there is no single answer to this question. Of course, it happens that the mind and feelings coexist in harmony. Moreover, as long as there is this harmony, we do not ask ourselves such questions. It's like air: while it's there, we don't notice it, but if it's not enough... However, there are situations when mind and feelings come into conflict. Probably, every person at least once in his life felt that his "mind and heart are out of tune." An internal struggle arises, and it is difficult to imagine what will prevail: reason or heart.
So, for example, in A. Aleksin's story "In the meantime, somewhere ..." we see the confrontation between reason and feelings. The main character Sergei Emelyanov, having accidentally read a letter addressed to his father, learns about the existence of his ex-wife. The woman asks for help. It would seem that Sergei has nothing to do in her house, and his mind tells him to simply return her letter to her and leave. But sympathy for the grief of this woman, once abandoned by her husband, and now by her adopted son, makes him neglect the arguments of reason. Serezha decides to constantly visit Nina Georgievna, help her in everything, save her from the most terrible misfortune - loneliness. And when his father offers him to go on vacation to the sea, the hero refuses. Yes, of course, a trip to the sea promises to be exciting. Yes, you can write to Nina Georgievna and convince her that she should go to the camp with the guys, where she will be fine. Yes, you can promise to come to her during the winter holidays. All this is quite reasonable. But a sense of compassion and responsibility takes precedence in him over these considerations. After all, he promised Nina Georgievna to be with her and cannot become her new loss. Sergei is going to hand over a ticket to the sea. The author shows that the feeling of compassion wins.
Let us turn to the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". The author tells about the fate of Tatyana. In her youth, having fallen in love with Onegin, she, unfortunately, does not find reciprocity. Tatyana carries her love through the years, and finally Onegin is at her feet, he is passionately in love with her. It would seem that she dreamed about it. But Tatyana is married, she is aware of her duty as a wife, she cannot tarnish her honor and the honor of her husband. Reason prevails over her feelings in her, and she refuses Onegin. Above love, the heroine puts moral duty, marital fidelity.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to add that reason and feelings underlie our being. I would like them to balance each other, allow us to live in harmony with ourselves and with the world around us.
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Direction "Honor and dishonor"
An example of an essay on the topic: "How do you understand the words" honor "and" dishonor "?
Honor and dishonor ... Probably, many thought about what these words mean. Honor is self-esteem, moral principles that a person is ready to defend in any situation, even at the cost of his own life. At the heart of dishonor is cowardice, weakness of character, which does not allow one to fight for ideals, forcing one to commit vile deeds. Both of these concepts are revealed, as a rule, in a situation of moral choice.
Many writers have addressed the theme of honor and dishonor. So, in the story of V. Bykov "Sotnikov" it is said about two partisans who were taken prisoner. One of them, Sotnikov, courageously endures torture, but does not tell his enemies anything. Knowing that he will be executed in the morning, he prepares to face death with dignity. The writer focuses our attention on the thoughts of the hero: “Sotnikov easily and simply, as something elementary and completely logical in his position, now made the last decision: to take everything upon himself. Tomorrow he will tell the investigator that he went to reconnaissance, had a mission, wounded a policeman in a shootout, that he is a commander of the Red Army and an opponent of fascism, let them shoot him. The rest are not here." It is indicative that before death a partisan thinks not about himself, but about the salvation of others. And although his attempt did not lead to success, he fulfilled his duty to the end. The hero courageously meets death, not for a minute does the thought come to him to beg the enemy for mercy, to become a traitor. The author wants to convey to us the idea that honor and dignity are above the fear of death.
Comrade Sotnikova, Rybak, behaves quite differently. The fear of death took over all his feelings. Sitting in the basement, he only thinks about saving his own life. When the police offered him to become one of them, he was not offended, not indignant, on the contrary, he “felt acutely and joyfully - he would live! There was an opportunity to live - this is the main thing. Everything else - later. Of course, he does not want to become a traitor: “He had no intention of giving them partisan secrets, much less joining the police, although he understood that it would not be easy to evade her.” He hopes that "he will get out and then he will certainly pay off these bastards ...". An inner voice tells Rybak that he has embarked on the path of dishonor. And then Rybak tries to find a compromise with his conscience: “He went to this game to win his life - is this not enough for the most, even desperate, game? And there it will be visible, if only they would not be killed, tortured during interrogations. If only to break out of this cage, and he will not allow himself anything bad. Is he his enemy? Faced with a choice, he is not ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of honor.
The writer shows the successive stages of Rybak's moral decline. Here he agrees to go over to the side of the enemy and at the same time continues to convince himself that "there is no great fault for him." In his opinion, “he had more opportunities and cheated in order to survive. But he is not a traitor. In any case, he was not going to become a German servant. He kept waiting to seize a convenient moment - maybe now, or maybe a little later, and only they will see him ... "
And now Rybak takes part in the execution of Sotnikov. Bykov emphasizes that even Rybak is trying to find an excuse for this terrible act: “What does he have to do with it? Is it him? He just pulled out this stump. And then by order of the police. And only walking in the ranks of policemen, Rybak finally understands: "There was no longer any way to escape from this ranks." V. Bykov emphasizes that the path of dishonor chosen by Rybak is a path to nowhere.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to express the hope that we, faced with a difficult choice, will not forget about the highest values: honor, duty, courage.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "In what situations are the concepts of honor and dishonor revealed?"
In what situations are the concepts of honor and dishonor revealed? Reflecting on this issue, one cannot but come to the conclusion that both of these concepts are revealed, as a rule, in a situation of moral choice.
Thus, in wartime, a soldier may face death. He can accept death with dignity, remaining faithful to duty and not tarnishing military honor. At the same time, he may try to save his life by embarking on the path of betrayal.
Let us turn to the story of V. Bykov "Sotnikov". We see two partisans captured by the police. One of them, Sotnikov, behaves courageously, endures severe torture, but does not tell the enemy anything. He retains self-respect and, before execution, accepts death with honor. His comrade, Rybak, is trying to escape at all costs. He despised the honor and duty of the defender of the Fatherland and went over to the side of the enemy, became a policeman and even participated in the execution of Sotnikov, personally knocking out a stand from under his feet. We see that it is in the face of mortal danger that the true qualities of people are manifested. Honor here is loyalty to duty, and dishonor is a synonym for cowardice and betrayal.
The concepts of honor and dishonor are revealed not only during the war. The need to pass a test of moral strength may arise before everyone, even a child. To preserve honor means to try to protect one's dignity and pride, to know dishonor means to endure humiliation and bullying, being afraid to fight back.
V. Aksyonov tells about this in the story “Breakfasts of the forty-third year”. The narrator was regularly the victim of stronger classmates who regularly took away from him not only breakfasts, but also any other things they liked: “He took her from me. He took everything - everything that was of interest to Him. And not only for me, but for the whole class.” The hero was not just sorry for the lost, the constant humiliation, the awareness of his own weakness, was unbearable. He decided to stand up for himself, to resist. And although physically he could not defeat the three overage hooligans, but the moral victory was on his side. An attempt to defend not only his breakfast, but also his honor, to overcome his fear became an important milestone in his growing up, the formation of his personality. The writer brings us to the conclusion: one must be able to defend one's honor.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to express the hope that in any situation we will remember honor and dignity, we will be able to overcome spiritual weakness, we will not allow ourselves to fall morally.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "What does it mean to walk the path of honor?"
What does it mean to walk the path of honor? Let us turn to the explanatory dictionary: "Honor is the moral qualities of a person worthy of respect and pride." Walking the path of honor means standing up for your moral principles no matter what. The right path can be fraught with the risk of losing something important: work, health, life itself. Following the path of honor, we must overcome fear of other people and difficult circumstances, sometimes sacrifice a lot in order to defend our honor.
Let us turn to the story of M.A. Sholokhov "The Fate of Man". The main character, Andrei Sokolov, was captured. For carelessly spoken words, they were going to shoot him. He could beg for mercy, humiliate himself before his enemies. Perhaps a weak-minded person would have done just that. But the hero is ready to defend the honor of a soldier in the face of death. On the offer of the commandant Muller to drink for the victory of German weapons, he refuses and agrees to drink only for his own death as a deliverance from torment. Sokolov behaves confidently and calmly, refusing snacks, despite the fact that he was hungry. He explains his behavior in this way: “I wanted to show them, damned, that although I’m dying of hunger, I’m not going to choke on their handouts, that I have my own, Russian dignity and pride and that they didn’t turn me into a beast, like didn't try." Sokolov's act aroused respect for him even from the enemy. The German commandant recognized the moral victory of the Soviet soldier and saved his life. The author wants to convey to the reader the idea that even in the face of death, honor and dignity must be preserved.
It is not only a soldier who must follow the path of honor in time of war. Each of us must be ready to defend our dignity in difficult situations. In almost every class there is a tyrant - a student who keeps everyone else in fear. Physically strong and cruel, he delights in torturing the weak. What to do to someone who is constantly faced with humiliation? To endure dishonor or stand up for your own dignity? The answer to these questions is given by A. Likhanov in the story "Clean Pebbles". The writer talks about Mihaska, an elementary school student. He more than once became a victim of Savvatei and his cronies. The hooligan was on duty every morning at the elementary school and robbed the children, taking away everything that he liked. Moreover, he did not miss the opportunity to humiliate his victim: “Sometimes he snatched a textbook or notebook from a bag instead of a bun and threw it into a snowdrift or took it for himself, so that, after moving a few steps later, throw it under his feet and wipe his felt boots about them.” Savvatei specifically “was on duty at this particular school, because in elementary school they study until the fourth grade and the guys are all small.” Mikhaska experienced more than once what humiliation means: once Savvatei took away from him an album with stamps, which belonged to Mikhaska's father and therefore was especially dear to him, another time a hooligan set fire to his new jacket. True to his principle of humiliating the victim, Savvatei ran a “dirty, sweaty paw” across his face. The author shows that Mikhaska could not stand the bullying and decided to fight back against a strong and ruthless opponent, before whom the whole school, even adults, trembled. The hero grabbed a stone and was ready to hit Savvatea, but suddenly he retreated. He retreated because he felt Mihaska's inner strength, his readiness to defend his human dignity to the end. The writer focuses our attention on the fact that it was the determination to defend one's honor that helped Mikhaska win a moral victory.
Walking the path of honor means standing up for others. So, Pyotr Grinev in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter" fought a duel with Shvabrin, defending the honor of Masha Mironova. Shvabrin, being rejected, in a conversation with Grinev allowed himself to offend the girl with vile allusions. Grinev could not bear this. As a decent man, he went to the duel and was ready to die, but to defend the honor of the girl.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to express the hope that every person will have the courage to choose the path of honor.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "Honor is more precious than life"
In life, situations often arise when we are faced with a choice: to act in accordance with moral rules or to make a deal with conscience, to sacrifice moral principles. It would seem that everyone would have to choose the right path, the path of honor. But it's often not that easy. Especially if the price of the right decision is life. Are we ready to go to death in the name of honor and duty?
Let us turn to the novel by A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter". The author tells about the capture of the Belogorsk fortress by Pugachev. The officers had to either swear allegiance to Pugachev, recognizing him as sovereign, or end their lives on the gallows. The author shows what choice his heroes made: Pyotr Grinev, just like the commandant of the fortress and Ivan Ignatievich, showed courage, was ready to die, but not disgrace the honor of the uniform. He found the courage to tell Pugachev to his face that he could not recognize him as sovereign, refused to change the military oath: “No,” I answered with firmness. - I am a natural nobleman; I swore allegiance to the empress: I can’t serve you.” With all frankness, Grinev told Pugachev that he might fight against him, fulfilling his officer's duty: “You know, it’s not my will: they tell me to go against you - I’ll go, there’s nothing to do. You are now the boss yourself; you yourself demand obedience from your own. What will it be like if I refuse service when my service is needed? The hero understands that his honesty can cost him his life, but the feeling of long and honor prevails in him over fear. The sincerity and courage of the hero so impressed Pugachev that he saved Grinev's life and let him go.
Sometimes a person is ready to defend, not sparing even his own life, not only his honor, but also the honor of loved ones, family. It is impossible to meekly endure an insult, even if it is inflicted by a person who is higher on the social ladder. Dignity and honor above all.
M.Yu. tells about it. Lermontov in "Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, a young guardsman and a daring merchant Kalashnikov". The guardsman of Tsar Ivan the Terrible liked Alena Dmitrievna, the wife of the merchant Kalashnikov. Knowing that she was a married woman, Kiribeevich still allowed himself to solicit her love. The offended woman asks her husband for intercession: “Don’t let me, your faithful wife, / Evil swindlers in reproach!” The author emphasizes that the merchant does not doubt for a second what decision he should make. Of course, he understands what the confrontation with the royal favorite threatens him with, but the honest name of the family is more precious than even life itself: And such an insult cannot be tolerated by the soul
Yes, a brave heart cannot bear it.
How tomorrow will be a fistfight
On the Moscow River in the presence of the Tsar himself,
And then I will go out to the guardsman,
I will fight to the death, to the last strength ...
And indeed, Kalashnikov goes out to fight against Kiribeevich. For him, this is not a fight for fun, this is a fight for honor and dignity, a battle not for life, but for death:
Not to joke, not to make people laugh
I came out to you, son of a fool, -
I went out to a terrible battle, to the last battle!
He knows that the truth is on his side, and he is ready to die for it:
I will stand up for the truth to the last!
Lermontov shows that the merchant defeated Kiribeevich, having washed away the insult with blood. However, fate prepares a new test for him: Ivan the Terrible orders Kalashnikov to be executed for killing his pet. The merchant could justify himself, tell the king why he killed the guardsman, but did not do this. After all, this would mean publicly dishonoring the honest name of his wife. He is ready to go to the block, defending the honor of the family, to accept death with dignity. The writer wants to convey to us the idea that there is nothing more important for a person than his dignity, and you need to protect him, no matter what.
Summing up what has been said, we can conclude: honor is above everything, even life itself.
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An example of an essay on the topic: "To deprive another of the honor means to lose one's own"
What is dishonor? On the one hand, this is a lack of dignity, weakness of character, cowardice, inability to overcome fear of circumstances or people. On the other hand, dishonor is also brought on by a seemingly strong person if he allows himself to defame others, or even simply mock the weaker ones, humiliate the defenseless.
So, in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter" Shvabrin, having received a refusal from Masha Mironova, slanders her in revenge, allows himself insulting allusions to her. So, in a conversation with Pyotr Grinev, he claims that it is not necessary to seek Masha's favor with verses, hints at her accessibility: “... if you want Masha Mironova to come to you at dusk, then instead of gentle rhymes, give her a pair of earrings. My blood boiled.
- And why do you think so about her? I asked, holding back my indignation with difficulty.
“Because,” he answered with an infernal grin, “I know from experience her temper and custom.”
Shvabrin, without hesitation, is ready to tarnish the honor of the girl just because she did not reciprocate. The writer leads us to the idea that a person who acts vilely cannot be proud of an unsullied honor.
Another example is A. Likhanov's story "Clean Pebbles". A character named Savvatey keeps the whole school in fear. He takes pleasure in humiliating those who are weaker. The hooligan regularly robs students, mocks them: “Sometimes he snatched a textbook or notebook out of his bag instead of a bun and threw it into a snowdrift or took it for himself, so that, after stepping back a few steps, he would throw it under his feet and wipe his felt boots on them.” His favorite technique was to run a "dirty, sweaty paw" across the victim's face. He constantly humiliates even his "sixes": "Savvatey looked angrily at the guy, took him by the nose and pulled him hard", he "stood next to Sasha, leaning on his head." Encroaching on the honor and dignity of other people, he himself becomes the personification of dishonor.
Summing up what has been said, we can conclude: a person who humiliates dignity or discredits the good name of other people deprives himself of honor, dooms him to contempt from others.
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Everyone knows that the mind and feelings are interconnected.
Brockhaus and Efron in their dictionary give the following definition of feelings - this is a psychological term used in a double sense:
1) in the first, more general, the word feeling means the same as feeling; this includes not only the so-called five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch), but all internal sensations: hunger, thirst, malaise, pain, nausea, balance, dizziness, heaviness, warmth, cold, etc.
2) The ability of the soul to experience pleasure or displeasure from sensations, perceptions and ideas, as well as the mental state of joy or suffering itself. In this sense, feeling is sometimes denoted by the terms: feeling, emotion. There are two basic simple feelings: pleasure (everything that is associated with an increase in the vital activity of the organism) and suffering (accompanies any decrease, weakening of vital activity).
The human mind is a universal computer. The mind sets tasks, classifies and systematizes data, draws conclusions and makes decisions based on its calculations.
But in order to bring his decisions to life, he uses emotions or feelings. Reason and feelings are inextricably linked in any action. For example, a person is afraid of dogs. Seeing a dog, a person has a feeling of fear. Then the mind gives the command to the body with the help of the endocrine system to run away or hide from danger. Here we see that the mind and feelings are inextricably linked.
In another situation, for example, a person was given some desired gift. Seeing him, the mind gives a command through the endocrine system to the body and the person releases the hormone of “joy”, the person is satisfied and happy in life. And in this case, too, the mind and feelings work together.
Any action, emotion, state in life will involve the mind and feelings in the work. But there are situations in life when the mind does not correctly recognize what is happening around. This can be caused by artificial "substitutes" for reality, such as alcohol, some kind of medication or drugs.
Unfortunately, this problem is spreading more and more in society. Experiencing stress, a person instinctively tries to isolate himself from it. Instead of using the mind to solve the problem that has arisen, a person may not have the correct data to solve it, and using false data, the problem is not resolved. Then a person resorts to artificial "substitutes" for reality, which cause a feeling of euphoria where it actually does not exist. Taking drugs or some medications, he creates a kind of barrier between himself and those who and what surrounds him. Then the mind and senses begin to work against the survival of the organism, because their work is no longer coordinated.
For example, at a moment of real danger, when the body may need to flee or make immediate decisions, it experiences euphoria and does nothing. Reason and feelings are not in coordination with each other. Because of this, even more problems arise in a person’s life than they were originally.
A person who seeks to "escape" from reality is actually experiencing even more stress, which he does not even realize. This complicates life for him and those around him, and the mind and feelings come into ever greater imbalance.
In this situation, getting the right data about life works well so that you can deal with situations without resorting to artificial drugs.
Therefore, the more correct data a person has about life, the easier it is for him to cope with emerging situations. The less he tries to isolate himself from life, the better coordination the mind and feelings work.
If you look at the fact that the mind is a universal computer that sets tasks on its own and is able to solve them on its own, it turns out that the more correct data it has for analysis, the better it works. The fewer errors are initially embedded in the mind, the more correct data a person receives as a result of his work.
If the mind can correctly recognize the problem in life, then it can correctly solve it. If he stumbles upon an artificial barrier created by alcohol, drugs or various kinds of drugs, then he has a failure in the coordination of "mind and feelings" and the situation can then get completely out of control.
There are many examples of this in the life around us. When you see a drunk person, you can definitely tell that his feelings are out of balance with his mind. He may not react to the real danger in the environment, hence so many accidents on the roads from drunk drivers and pedestrians.
When you see a person “high”, you also understand that his reactions are completely inadequate to the situations that are happening around.
Unfortunately, we encounter such people all the time in our lives. They also influence us. Everything is interconnected.
Therefore, the better a person understands life, understands how the mind works and why it is so, the less various kinds of discomfort he will experience in life, the more coordinated his mind and feelings will work, and the better the life of the people around him will be. .
Composition in the direction: Reason and feeling. Graduation essay 2016-2017
Reason and feeling: can they possess a person at the same time, or are they mutually exclusive concepts? Is it true that in a fit of feelings a person commits both vile deeds and great discoveries that drive evolution and progress? What is a dispassionate mind capable of, a cold calculation? The search for answers to these questions has occupied the best minds of mankind since life appeared. And this dispute, which is more important - reason or feeling - has been going on since antiquity, and everyone has their own answer. “People live by feelings,” says Erich Maria Remarque, but immediately adds that in order to realize this, reason is needed.
On the pages of world fiction, the problem of the influence of feelings and the mind of a person is raised very often. So, for example, in Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace" two types of heroes appear: on the one hand, this is the impulsive Natasha Rostova, the sensitive Pierre Bezukhov, the fearless Nikolai Rostov, on the other hand, the arrogant and prudent Helen Kuragina and her brother, callous Anatole. Many conflicts in the novel come precisely from the excess of feelings of the characters, whose ups and downs are very interesting to watch. A vivid example of how a burst of feelings, thoughtlessness, ardor of character, impatient youth influenced the fate of the heroes is the case of Natasha's betrayal, because for her, laughable and young, it was incredibly long to wait for a wedding with Andrei Bolkonsky, could she subdue her unexpectedly flashed feelings for Anatole the voice of reason? Here, a real drama of mind and feelings unfolds in front of us in the soul of the heroine, she faces a difficult choice: leave her fiancé and leave with Anatole, or not succumb to a momentary impulse and wait for Andrei. It was in favor of feelings that this difficult choice was made, only chance prevented Natasha. We cannot condemn the girl, knowing her impatient nature and thirst for love. It was feelings that dictated Natasha's impulse, after which she regretted her act when she analyzed it.
It was the feeling of boundless, all-consuming love that helped Margarita reunite with her lover in Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. The heroine, without a second's hesitation, gives her soul to the devil and goes with him to the ball, where the killers and hangmen kiss her knee. Having abandoned a secure, measured life in a luxurious mansion with a loving husband, she rushes into an adventurous adventure with evil spirits. Here is a vivid example of how a person, having chosen a feeling, created his happiness.
Thus, the statement of Erich Maria Remarque is absolutely true: guided only by reason, a person can live, but it will be a colorless, dull and joyless life, only feelings give life indescribably bright colors, leaving emotionally filled memories. As the great classic Leo Tolstoy wrote: “If we assume that human life can be controlled by reason, then the very possibility of life will be destroyed.”
