Often our first thought bears the most resonant truth. It is all that comes after that talks us out of what we know.
A part of us always knows what we need to hear and can always tell us where we need to go. The great challenge of life is not to silence that voice with fear or with hope, with indifference or compulsion or the tyranny of should.)
Sometimes our nature speaks more wisely than our convictions, and we’ll only work well if we listen to what it says.
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
When we make decisions, we want to rely on non-thinking. When we try to think, analyze, create pros and cons lists, and ask everyone (including our pets) for advice, it causes anxiety and frustration until we make the decision. Most of the time, we already know deep down what to do in any specific situation.