Human emotion is central to our education on this planet. To learn from fear and loss, to learn the work of love -- how to care while in pain. How to see each other while bent with hurt or grief.
Emotions lie; we know that. But they also hold truth. Because there is an emotion of rightness: seeing the beautiful, the harmonious; seeing the opposites that belong together, the unseverable relationship between loss and hope, failure and discovery.
The emotion of rightness comes as a dancer moves in a certain way, as the sculptor chooses a certain shape. It comes while reading the perfect lines of Steven's On Mere Being. It comes as we finally say the truth that took so long to find.
The emotion of rightness is a sometimes dim, sometimes brilliant lantern -- lighting our way.
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