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Intuition
Your intuition is your inner lighthouse, forever illuminating the path to your true destination. It remains standing and shining, even when you veer off course, deviating from your inner wisdom to heed the clamor of fear and ego.
The faculty of intuition defies precise definition. Because we can’t conclusively pinpoint its source, we wonder if it’s a sixth sense, an emotional faculty, or a spiritual insight. All we know is that it simply exists, a powerful force guiding us in ways that transcend explanation.
This inner beacon doesn’t grab our attention in the same way as our everyday thoughts. Instead, it whispers subtly – sometimes called the still, small voice or a gut feeling. It imparts messages about who we are, the radiant inner light that defines us, and the remarkable journey ahead. The language of intuition is unique, and like learning any new language, we can only become fluent in it through deliberate practice.
In the search for purpose, we must remain open and receptive to intuition’s wisdom. This skill is fortified through mindful reflection (i.e., meditation and prayer) and exercised via surrendering to our inner Knowing. As we clear away the noise of external influences and the cacophony of our thoughts, we create space for intuition’s delicate guidance to emerge.
With its unwavering glow, our inner lighthouse is the source of authentic navigation in our lives. It doesn’t seek to impose or dictate but rather gently encourages us to align with our true selves, utilize our gifts, and follow the path of our unique purpose.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynmann
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.”
Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
Etymological explanation for Intuition:
mid-15c., “insight, direct or immediate cognition, spiritual perception.”
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Intuition allows us to understand something without the need for conscious reasoning.
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
Wayne Dyer
“When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice— your inner GPS guiding you to true North.”
Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
“Faith is, above all, openness – an act of trust in the unknown.”
Alan Watts, The Book
Self-education is, I believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
“To believe our own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, – that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Louis Pasteur
The early morning breeze carries untold mysteries.
Resist the urge to sleep.
Make clear your true desires.
Resist the urge to sleep.
People move between the threshold
where the material and spiritual meet.
The doorway is round and welcoming.
Resist the urge to sleep.
Adapted from Rumi’s The Breeze at Dawn
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The “breeze at dawn” symbolizes a moment of revelation, a time when deep truths and insights become available. We must stay awake and receptive to this opportunity.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
Elon Musk, 60 Minutes
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
My first task is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
Adapted from Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink
Listen to the wind, it talks.
Listen to the silence, it speaks.
Listen to your heart, it knows.
Native American proverb
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
Carl Jung
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”
Albert Camus, The Stranger
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you…
All of us are gifted with certain passions, and the people who are lucky are the ones who get to follow those things.
Jeff Bezos
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.”
Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Adapted from Galileo Galilei’s letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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