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Intuition
Intuition is direct knowing, the truth that arrives whole, without the slow ladder of reasoning. It is the soul's own perception, swifter and surer than thought, the way you know before you can explain. The mystics call it the faculty by which the Over-Soul speaks through you; the philosophers grant that thoughts without intuition are empty, that the bare concept must be filled by a seeing. It is felt as much as understood, a quiet certainty, an inner yes or no registered in the body before the mind has formed a case.
Carried by 18 teachers · across 4 traditions · 10 quotes
To cultivate intuition is to learn its language and to trust it. Quiet the surface mind, the teachers counsel, enter the silence, ask, and listen, for intuition is drowned by the noise of analysis. Read the felt expansion or contraction in the body as your own inner compass. Intuition is not opposed to reason but completes it, supplying the leap that logic cannot make. The practiced soul comes to consult it at every fork, and finds that what seemed like guessing was a deeper form of knowing all along.
In their words
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.Immanuel Kant
The optimist, by his superior wisdom and insight, is making his own heaven.Ralph Waldo Trine
Intuition Through the Body — reading the felt expansion-or-contraction as your inner 'yes' and 'no'.Penney Peirce
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.attributed to Albert Einstein
Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life.Ralph Waldo Trine