They represent our human yearnings, luring us irresistibly toward the achievement of our dreams of love, strength, and wisdom, the fruits of which are joy. How much joy we're able to draw into our lives depends on how skillfully we use these three tools. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to know how to find joy. It's a little harder to actually do it, of course, but let's postpone talking about that for now. Contractive energy creates discontentment, depression, and hopelessness.
Active energy is vigorous but nondirected.
It's energy in its raw, wild, untamed form. It's the energy of love, wisdom, and joy. Feeling is water. Selfish, contractive, low-energy feeling is stagnant water, like a fetid swamp. Active feeling is a snowmelt stream rushing wildly down a mountain gorge.