We often feel ruled by our emotions—
and yet, we rarely know what they truly are.
Is anger just a reaction?
Is sorrow meant to help us let go?
Is joy the light we should aim for?
Here’s how I see it:
Emotion is a ripple of memory.
It is a vibration from the past, echoing across the surface of the present.
Emotions are not real-time responses to events.
They are resonant plates we’ve been carrying all along—trembling when touched by a familiar note.
Say someone ignores you.
The act itself is a small ripple.
But if you carry a long-buried hurt from being ignored before,
this new ripple will awaken that old vibration together with the memory.
The emotion that arises isn’t just about this moment.
It’s a layered tremor, echoing across time.
That’s why emotion is not a “fact.”
It’s the afterglow of resonance.
When anger or sorrow wells up,
we often believe, “This is who I am.”
But that’s not true.
It’s not your essence—
it’s just your instrument resonating in this moment.
So, what does it mean to be free from emotion?
It doesn’t mean silencing emotion.
It means listening to the tremor
as resonance—
without needing to correct it,
without being ruled by it,
with quiet attention.
In that stillness,
emotion begins to shift—
from a voice of ego
to the resonance of the soul.
Emotion is not the enemy.
But when we mistake it for our self,
ego begins to take root.
Instead, treat emotion
like a breeze passing through.
When you can feel it that way,
a deeper silence rises from within you.
And that silence—
that is your true resonant core.