Which is a better measure of who you are, your thoughts or your feelings?

Question

Which is a better measure of who you are, your thoughts or your feelings?

Answer 1

They are inextricably intertwined.  (even the most logical person is affected by emotion at times and even the most emotional person uses logic from time to time - the most successful humans are those that use both halves of their brain equally)

Answer 2

The best is your deeds,then should be your thoughts.

Answer 3

I don't think you thoughts or your feelings define who you are. Read "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.

Answer 4

Your feelings.

Coming from an Objectivist, that might sound contradictory, at first. But here is the explanation:

"Man is born with an emotional mechanism, just as he is born with a cognitive mechanism; but, at birth, both are “tabula rasa.” It is man’s cognitive faculty, his mind, that determines the content of both. Man’s emotional mechanism is like an electronic computer, which his mind has to program—and the programming consists of the values his mind chooses.

"But since the work of man’s mind is not automatic, his values, like all his premises, are the product either of his thinking or of his evasions: man chooses his values by a conscious process of thought—or accepts them by default, by subconscious associations, on faith, on someone’s authority, by some form of social osmosis or blind imitation. Emotions are produced by man’s premises, held consciously or subconsciously, explicitly or implicitly."

“The Objectivist Ethics,” The Virtue of Selfishness; Ayn Rand

Therefore, since your mind "programs" your emotions, and does so automatically, and does so according to what you REALLY believe if you took the time to thoroughly examine what you believe instead of just accepting your mind without "examining" it, in the Socratic sense--then your emotions are going to be a better indicator of what your mind really is all about.

But if you have lived the "examined life," and your thoughts are not contradictory of themselves, then your emotional responses will match your thoughts.

Answer 5

None in my perspective.

Answer 6

an accurate measure of yourself has to come from both sides, not from just one. if you dont have a combo of both of them, you will not really get anything accurate. even the most logical and thought based person has feelings and emotions, and, visa versa. you cannot have one without the other. basically, it is like yin and yang. 2 halves of a whole, 2 sides of a coin, the list goes on and on.

have a great day!!!

-Angel

Answer 7

They're dual - two sides of the same coin.

Answer 8

It depends.  Am I in a comedy or a tragedy?

Answer 9

Both, in balance with God's will.

Source:  "The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

http://www.heartmath.org