The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and end are visible along the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes […]
Intuition Quotes
You get your intuition back when yuou make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into […]
The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings.
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
