Sometimes a student dedicated to the study of textbooks forgets that feeling plays an even larger role in his life than does reason.  Both the motivation to act and the satisfactions gained from action are felt.  Reason is a good guide and a needed one, but feeling is the dynamics of living.  We love and hate, fear and hope, desire happiness and hunger and thirst after truth and goodness. The feeling aspect of life cannot be gainsaid; it must be fulfilled.  and the arts beckon us to a rich source of deep emotional satisfaction.

Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 84-85)

"In another life--this isn't what I know, but how I feel--these mountains [the Himalayas] were my home; there is a rising of forgotten knowledge, like a spring from hidden aquifers under the earth. To glimpse one's own true nature is a kind of homegoing."

-Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (pg. 239)

"I do not sculpt and paint to make the world sacred. I sculpt and paint to give permanence to my feelings about how terrible this world truly is. Nothing is real to me except my own feelings; nothing is true except my own feelings as I see them all around me in my sculptures and paintings. I know these feelings are true, because if they were not true they would make art that is as terrible as the world...One day you will understand about the truth of feelings."

-Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev (pg. 226)