Since ancient times, people have intuitively felt that rejecting their feelings can lead to being consumed by them. However, when they embrace all their feelings, those feelings can transform them. As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas:
“Blessed is the lion which becomes a man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consum…
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