Intellect is confused for Intelligence, emotional resistance/reactivity for Sensitivity or emotional depth, though neither intellect nor emotion is capable of taking the lead in any situation. They are rather informers and it's you as Awareness that can be sensible without the influence of their functions which essentially is the movement of memory-experience also known as thought-sensation.
To be free really just means being free of this conditioning created by all impressions a.k.a. memory we call knowledge or experience.
To have no experience means to stop being a perpetuator and recorder of impressions/memory and not that we find newer/subtler ways to live in denial owing to our keenness to develop wrong views. It means to have touched the experience of non-experience a.k.a. Nothing/That after which things stop accumulating/sticking and then you begin to live like a lotus flower amidst everything, life not only becomes simple but is seen to be simple. As for Realisation, it keeps deepening and you just have to keep getting out of the way a.k.a. stop resisting/feel it all the way without telling yourself any story.
Example: someone unconsciously hurts me/gets mad at me and I feel hurt/pain. Instead of falling for the deception of the mind that might narrate this story "he or she hurt me/got mad at me" etc, I attend to and fall into the hurt/pain directly. I abandon the story (a.k.a. thought that comes up to perpetuate the dream.). As for the event that becomes the reason for coming face to face with the inner hurt/pain/lunacy, I do what's best in that context based on how clearly I can see without conflict or bitterness, but I can do my best only when I actually honestly face my(false)"self" (which is to say without getting carried away in the story-thought-image) however it may express itself a.k.a. being responsible for myself and understanding another from that place.
Remember, there are no enemies in any form anywhere outside and we only have so much time to waste on insane stories of the mind.
Freedom is to do away with thinking of receiving or not receiving any rewards from anything you are doing and then you do it with all your heart. And only then you can do it with all your heart.
What a joy to let our deepest and greatest joys and merits be an offering to the whole universe, to God.

It is very nice and convenient to think that who "I" perceive my"self" to be doesn't need to practice spiritually because according to the escapist mind it's either that I am THAT (because that's what they all keep saying in different ways) or there's nothing like THAT and all that there is is what I perceive from mere senses, right? And all "I" want to do is sound superior, like "I" have already "found" the "truth" and "I know better" (and it is untrue because there is no "I" to realise the truth in the way you think there is or isn't. All your ideas are just as baseless.) while nothing really shifts in us except us becoming more ignorant and of course what else could come out of ignorance if not more ignorance?
Well, congratulations that's what the egoic mind always wanted to do.. to be delusional through all its self-deceptions. Until one day you suddenly find the opposite to be the actual case (a.k.a. that you might actually need to practice sincerely instead of talking bullshit and bullshitting yourself.) usually in an undesirable way, but for the best.
Of course this is not for everyone but as with all things genuine, reactivity (aversion-resistance-denial a.k.a. clinging to the perceived sense of self/image) is thoroughly noticed/effortlessly absent in any genuine case. And we will know it only in the degree we fully face ourselves/are fully sincere with ourselves.
There's not really a need to be in a rush to drop anything. Things happen as needed if we stop identifying with all the fantastical ideas and get out of the way. There are no conflicts in reality. Us having to practice doesn't mean that we are not THAT, yet we have to sincerely do what we need to do in order to know it firsthand or to even talk about something as fundamentally important as THAT.
Real rebellion always occurs in the heart because it is that of Consciousness and against all the deceptions of the mind, and expresses itself as quiet faith and undying hope ever burning and keeping open in the midst of this very world because in the end and after all we come to see that we have never not been engulfed by the inherent okayness of everything.
Mind when restless keeps making this conclusion or that conclusion about itself, about what it thinks it's seeing, about everything that enters its periphery.
All this to ensure the continuity of the sense of "I", in other words to maintain its control by way of its existing identifications.
Then expectedly gets overwhelmed and concludes that there is no conclusion or need for a conclusion at all (to soothe itself and abandon the sense of burden from all the compulsive mental gymnastics) and runs away from clarity continually looking for escape, that 2 seconds of illusory relief or more technically unmerited (a.k.a. something that has not come from right view and understanding and which one doesn't want to put honest effort towards) liberation...
Instead of noticing this whole mechanical loop and stepping out of it naturally by virtue of seeing, and living from the place of active alive raw intelligence. Just presence. Fully in touch with the is-ness.
Akin to a flower that quietly blooms without calling attention to itself, the more you realise that there is no such thing as "You" (in the way you think or don't) and settle in that realisation, the more your presence permeates the air around you with its aroma, and the more its soothing fire absorbs, changes, and dissolves everything it comes in contact with.
There is an unfathomably deep sacredness about two people deciding to come together against all odds and walk the path to dissolution and to the ultimate union (or realisation, whatever you call it doesn't really matter)
through loving each other through everything with trust and devotion.
To love someone wholeheartedly again and again is to annihilate the (false) self. It is reverence. It is to make god the center of the relationship. It is surrender.
This inner attitude of service and devotion is also possible within any nature of relationship. With family. With friends. With the whole cosmos. 
To receive each interaction as a message of god is to remain surrendered which is to say everything all the time is inviting us to turn inward and meet who we are beyond this seeming dance of phenomena and the intoxicatingly distractive reactivity it might stir up making us helplessly leave the royal throne of our spiritual heart.
Another trap is to keep the feedback loop open,
"new ideas"
"new trends"
"new technology" 
  even "new person/child/relationship" in this century as we have come to treat everything unseriously and disposably.
   "new this, better that"

To think that things are "new", "different", "better" and that if you don't actively pursue them you will be left behind or become uncool is a story/delusion. 
A seeming of something happening, something that will finally satisfy our senses.
Well that's how the story keeps itself going through its self-perpetuating mechanism when presence is absent.
You can, in the relative context, know anything you want anytime you want and yet you don't *have to*.  You can just stop it! It is *allowed*.
When we stop running after anything at all is when we begin to develop samadṛṣṭi (unbiased and meditative view). is when we begin to do things meaningfully. is when we can go all in and truly commit. is when we make it sacred.
All twisting and skewing (of the psyche) and its reinforcement happens in the realm of (compulsive) Thought when we begin to fragment/divide away from the raw feeling of the here and now and start telling ourselves stories.
Abandon all images and narratives, feel and face fully the pain and discomfort both real and perceived, and save yourself from decades of useless rationalization.
Clearly you can't be just/fair, peaceful, moral, good etc if you fall in love with any of these qualities as ideas. 
Any action from this place will never be whole, pure, right for it carries the weight and taint of your own becoming-identification.
The function of fixation/becoming actively ruins that which it is trying to become.
And of course all codes exist for those who aren't (yet) sensitive enough in perception (a.k.a. not present and therefore full of themselves) to do the right unbiased thing without the code.
But adjustment/modification of thought and thought-led behaviour is not true goodness or virtue, for it misses the active wisdom that comes from presence.