Kinesthetic sympathy is the state of having an emotional attachment to an object when it is in hand which one did not have when it was out of sight. The fundamental difference of sympathy and empathy is involvement. While one can have sympathy for an inanimate object, empathy would be impossible as it involves interaction from one another. Conquering kinesthetic sympathy is a key component of conquering clutter issues. It is perhaps the driving force behind all problems of hoarding, considering emotional attachment is arguably the most self-proclaimed reason one continues to keep worthless, or unusable items.
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Famous quotes containing the words kinesthetic and/or sympathy:
“I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”
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“Shall we never have done with that cliché, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they’ll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they’ll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.”
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