***reconciling our feelings with our actions***

Are feelings entirely real, or are they learned from experiences over time? Why can they and why do they change? Can we control our feelings? How others feel about us can affect how we feel about ourselves. We should encourage one another to exercise our best qualities while we simultaneously work on our worse ones. The ability to grow beyond our shortcomings emanates from the strengths we already possess. Losing sight of this can cause discouragement and create depression. Whatever we do in any moment describes what we are momentarily but does not completely define who we are in totality. We must consider the power of encouragement toward ourselves as well as to others. Controlling how we feel will certainly influence what we feel...

"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."