Really there are only two feelings that a human being can have, namely love and fear. It is generally supposed that the kinds of feeling we may have are legion, but this is an illusion. All other feelings, so-called, will turn out upon analysis to be either love or fear.
What about anger? Well, anger is really but fear in disguise. In chemistry we occasionally find the same substance occurring under completely different appearances. For example, black lead is exactly the same substance chemically as a diamond, different as they look. They are said to be allotropic forms of carbon. In the same way, anger, hatred, jealousy, criticism, egotism, are but allotropic forms of fear.
Joy, interest, the feeling of success and accomplishment, the appreciation of art, are allotropic forms of love. The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive. It is for us to decide which of these two feelings shall hold sway in our lives.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in God, and God in Him (1 John 4:16).
R. Buckminster Fuller said that love is the metaphysical equivalent of gravity and that fear is the equivalent of radiant energy. Gravity organizes, brings order and creates, while radiant energy is chaotic, random and destructive. In love we are attuned to all the forces that nurture, build and live; while with fear we are attuned to the force that destroys, tears apart and dies. Which way do we want our lives to be? How do we want to feel?
Feeling love,
Z Gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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