Dear Shelley and Doug,

I have been rereading The Heart of the Soul. This morning when I read the following on p. 100, our early discussions came to my mind. Thought of sharing with you both.

“Intellectual endeavor and emotional awareness are not mutually exclusive, but when an intellectual pursuit becomes compulsive, it is being used to divert attention from painful emotions.”

I assumed you both were saying that intellectual endeavor and emotional awareness were mutually exclusive. I wondered how they could be. But, probably you didn’t, knowing the above. The above passage has meant a lot to me. The intellectual pursuit becomes wrong if it is used to divert the attention from emotional awareness. Otherwise it is a necessary endeavor.

With love and trust,
Sundar