What is mind? What is identity? What is the nature and meaning of our individual experience? Why do I feel sorrowful sometimes without really understanding why? How can I be happy? Where does true Happiness come from? Questions from our personal and common experience often go unanswered in the rapid flow of life, only to come back to us when the need for answers is stronger or unavoidable. An understanding of the purpose and interaction of our Cognitive and Affective life, and the influences that affect them, helps us to understand our spiritual identity. Swedenborg and those who have searched his Writings looking for answers to these and other life issues can help us with our own questions.