"We say that someone who is easily wounded or offended is
sensitive. No, true sensitivity means being completely open to
the beauty and light of the divine world and closed to all the
ugliness and absurdity of the human world. So, what is generally
called sensitivity, that is, our ability to feel upset by
indifference, scorn, criticism and humiliation, is in fact only
susceptibility, sentimentality. So, what is left for these poor
unhappy souls, for whom heaven, angels, friends or beauty do not
exist, but only unfair, malicious, ill-intentioned people?
You must not confuse sensitivity with sentimentality.
Sentimentality is the unhealthy expression of a poor, mean,
narrow, neurotic ego. Sensitivity, on the other hand, is a higher
degree of evolution, which brings humans into contact with the
heavenly regions and enables them to resonate with all the beauty
of the universe."
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
