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The author reflects on how following her intuition, despite logical doubts, led to positive life changes, including quitting her stressful job. She highlights Einstein’s idea of intuition as a sacred gift and the rational mind as a servant. She also discusses how various mystic traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indigenous cultures, have long recognized and valued intuitive insights. She describes intuition as nature’s way of communicating with us, a deep inner knowing that connects us to both our individual selves and the world around us. She emphasizes that everyone possesses this capacity for intuition.
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”
—Albert Einstein
In 2017, I was hovering ever closer to burnout while navigating a stressful time at the magazine job I worked a decade to get. A friend told me about a retreat; and despite my logical mind telling me it would be impossible with how much I had on my plate, something deep in my gut told me I needed to go. So, I did. That choice set into motion a series of similarly illogical choices—including quitting my job—that led me here, writing to you. Like the tug of an invisible string, across all of these moments, I followed an inner knowing: my intuition.
Of course, mystic traditions have long detailed forms of spiritual insight likened to intuition. Mystics and poets like Meister Eckhart and Rumi wrote of certain heart-knowings, truths that our deepest selves are aware of, untouched by logic. Hindus and Buddhists describe the third eye, our capacity to see beyond physical reality, while Daoists practice wu wei, effortless action when one is aligned with the flow of nature. Witches and wise women have been sought out—and persecuted for—their ability to intuit the unknown. And since time immemorial, Indigenous people have described an awareness both ancestral and relational. The list goes on.
I have come to think of intuition as how nature speaks to and through us. And by nature, I mean both our deepest, inner nature as well as the collective nature that connects us all. Listening to our intuition is how we can practice being in collaboration with life or the universe. The beauty is that we all possess this capacity. Intuition isn’t a voice we must attain, but rather the one we attune to when we can quiet all the other noise of modern living.
