Erik Pevernagie wrote: “If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference.” What is Creator’s perspective?

We see this passage as reflecting the poverty of ideas as an abstraction, as an intellectual exercise alone, and not experienced viscerally through physical immersion. Because you are a physical being, you experience things through the senses very keenly, and this is tied to many inner rewards that are pleasing to the senses because you are primed to have feelings and discriminate among varied stimuli to feel some as annoying, some as repugnant, but others as delightful or even thrilling. It is, unfortunately, the case that many people who are withdrawn from others and isolated may live very constrained lives with little joy, because they are missing out on the amplification of positive sources of enjoyment created by participating with other human beings in an activity or shared endeavor of some kind, to have a feeling of belonging and accomplishment, acceptance, and even love, if only that of a loving friendship or colleague appreciating you for being of like mind and willing to share life with them. You were made to need others because there is so much to learn from participating in relationships. Being with the self is not only isolating, it is limiting because there will be a much smaller repertoire available to you of things to do and be. If you only have yourself to satisfy, that will greatly restrict your choices in what to do for fun or obtaining a feeling of accomplishment. Performing an amazing feat of some kind will be self‑satisfying but much more so if others are aware of it and admire you because of it. That admiration is a form of love, after all, and constitutes a reward you cannot give to yourself because self-love is ultimately limited. If your thoughts and yearnings remain totally within your mind and are never even shared with another, they will never lead to much. When in a relationship, the thoughts you share will be reflected back to you, and perhaps amplified and greatly encouraged if they meet with acceptance and, as a kind of reward, will spur you on to think more and do more, and much growth will result and will be ultimately much more satisfying than what you could do solely with your own perspective and ruminations.