452 Quotes About Emotional-intelligence

Anxiety is the aspect of our fear that looks to the future, anticipating potential problems and dangers.

The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.

Most meditative practices focus on the mind and becoming aware of our thoughts. By bringing this same awareness to our emotions - and then going further by consciously engaging them and uncovering the wisdom they hold - we can gain an even greater level of self-mastery. Emotional mastery comes not just from detachment, but from also allowing our emotions to fully flow, and receiving all that they have to offer us.

Emotions are an essential part of human intelligence. Without emotional intelligence, AI is incomplete.

Detachment is a tricky business. If we are seeking to access the innate wisdom in our emotions, detachment itself cannot be the goal… because in order to hear what our emotions have to say, we have to be willing to feel them.

All emotional intelligence begins with awareness. When we fail to notice what we're feeling, our responses to that feeling will be habitual and automatic. But when we identify our emotions, we can consciously choose to act on them in healthy and intelligent ways.

Taking time to simply be with what we are feeling is the only way to hear the quiet voice of our heart, so that we can allow our true hearts’ desires to guide us.

If we want to access the wisdom in our emotions, we must engage with what we are truly feeling - and not what we would rather be feeling instead.

By approaching all of our feelings as a compassionate witness and listening to what they are wanting to say, we become able to take action in a way that is informed by our emotions instead of automatically reacting from them.