Disappointment, always a shock to the feelings, is not only the mother of bitterness but the strongest incentive to a differentiation of feeling.
The failure of a pet plan, the disappointing behaviour of someone one loves, can supply the impulse either for a more or less brutal outburst of affect or for a modification and adjustment of feeling, and hence for its higher development.
This culminates in wisdom if feeling is supplemented by reflection and rational insight.
Wisdom is never violent: where wisdom reigns there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
C.G Jung
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