Your mind.

Learning is more prime to life than the primal aspects of life.  Perhaps it is like a heart beat or a breath in the head.   When the learning curb slows too much, how can a human decide and make good choices even?  At least the principle of the positive being often better than the negative is an idea which can be an active part of our basic outlook in life.  A lens to see the world with and a way to frame the world.   If we practice this becomes automatic and eventually more a part of our nature.  Darkness is very unhelpful, so why flirt with shadows anyway?  Yes some things in life are ugly.   Yet people can not afford to live life from a negative place.   You would certainly pay a price for going in that direction and I believe you know what I mean when I say this.   Peace, namaste.