“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.” StatesFeelingsGivenEmotionExistenceConditionsPossibilityMoodEncountersOpennessConcreteFulfilledPrevailing Author:Medard Boss
“The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world.” WorldFactsGivenUnderstandingBordersOpennessExpansionIdenticalFluidContractions Author:Medard Boss