The Importance of Emotions in Life

At the beginning of the book if you've ever read the divine comedy it starts out with him saying in the middle of my life i came to myself in a dark wood and the true way had been lost. He looks around and he sees this mountain rising out of the murk and he calls it mount delectable but as he goes ferocious beasts keep pushing him back down the mountain. "What happens to us when we start climbing the cultural pyramid is that our emotions say no no and we don't know why"