Quotes About Intuition

Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

Listen to the fear. Maybe it's your friend.

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge.

Love is many things, none of them logical.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

the part of it of which rationalism can give an account is relatively superficial. It is the part that has the prestige undoubtedly, for it has the loquacity, it can challenge you for proofs, and chop logic, and put you down with words. But it will fail to convince or convert you all the same, if your dumb intuitions are opposed to its conclusions.

prickling of the skin, sixth and seventh senses ringing dully like psychic tinnitus.

?ôi khi ch? c?n nhìn vào l?ng m?t ng??i ta ?ã có th? ?oán bi?t ngay ???c tâm tr?ng h? ra sao, có nh?ng c?m xúc gì ?ang di?n ra trong lòng h?

making a gut-level emotional connection.

That's not intuitive knowledge.

Putting a number in a day-to-day context is critical. For instance, years ago, Cisco Systems was contemplating whether to install a wireless network for its employees (a no-brainer today, but not at the time). The company had calculated that it would cost roughly $500 per year, per employee, to maintain the network. Was that worth it? Hard to say, since we don't have much intuition about $500 yearly expenses.

human-scale principle allows us to bring our intuition to bear in assessing whether the content of a message is credible.

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72)

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.

Some things can't be spoken. The body alone knows them. It holds them patiently, in its silent, intelligent cells, until you are ready to see.

sometimes one has to drop logic and go with the instinct of the heart, even if it contradicts law.

If a guru is a highly developed clairvoyant, he would ask the student to sit down, and he would look into the crown chakra and into the mental permanent seed. Then he would read the past lives of the student.

Intuition is knowing through direct inner perception. This wisdom or knowingness must be translated or stepped down into concepts, principles, and words. This manifests as the ajna chakra or understanding. Knowing something through intuition requires only seconds or minutes. But translating intuition into understanding, manifesting as concepts, principles, and words may take weeks, months or years.

Intuitive intelligence is knowing though direct inner perceptions or direct knowing. It doesn't require study. The disciple just simply knows. There are usually no inner images or visions. Intuitive intelligence utilizes the crown chakra.

Using intuitive intelligence alone is not enough. The concept or ideas that have been internally gathered by intuitive intelligence must still be analyzed, scrutinized and validated by using mental intelligence and actual experimentation.

It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary

Lincoln confessed that leaving Springfield was affecting him more deeply than anyone could imagine, a sadness felt more acutely because of a stubborn premonition that he would never return alive.