Am going to describe “love” as such — a form of energy that moves outwards. It emphasizes its biological foundation and the otherness, foretelling the consequential unruliness and unpredictability. This word has long lost any shred of precise meaning.

One definitive sign of psychosomatic forces at work is, most of my best ideas take shape after a good run. The rush of the energy just breaks through all psychic and cognitive barriers and makes connecting of all dots possible. And freest of all associations!

The frame of language, as Wittgenstein argues, cannot effectively extend or reach the realm of sensations. We cant sensibly describe sensations. Then — that’s where music (and perhaps painting) comes in. It directly works on the brain’s affective area, whereas language/words only scratch the cognitive one. That’s also why music, in most cases, is a more powerful medium.

Although the philosophical era of dictum “to live is to be perceived” has long passed, it put its finger on something that really matters. The world comes to us through our awareness. The quality of our consciousness decides the quality of our life. What we perceive, or choose to perceive, affects our life most of time than what’s out there. After all — we cannot step outside our mind. We can choose to live a wider and deeper life by tinkering our perception.

Isn’t this the foundational concept underlying CBT? Your behavior got you into trouble and misery? The cure is to find out (counter-productive) thoughts underneath your behavior and revise them.