On the other hand, love is consistent, grounded, unwavering and has more to do with a deep sense of conviction than
mere feelings.
«Real myth,» he wrote in 1950, «is the expression, not of an imaginative state of mind or of
mere feeling, but of a real meeting of two Realities.»
It may be that God uses the dopamine receptors as a tool like he uses everything else in nature that he designed, but there's far more to being in the presence of the Lord than
a mere feeling.
This compassion was not
a mere feeling of charity, or made him work for some reform.
But, as Peirce saw; before Whitehead gave technical expression to it with his concept of «prehension,»
the merest feeling implies «spontaneity,» a degree above the zero of freedom.
I wanted to get beyond
a mere feeling / impression, however, so I totaled up the number of male and female speakers at the specific 12 sessions I attended.
So flat that you have to look to use them —
mere feel isn't enough.