intuition

“Notice also how the initial knowing comes from a place deep inside your body, but the negotiation happens in your intellect. This is a significant distinction: knowing with the body and thinking with the intellect.”

from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube

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First listen, then act, then understand.

Anna Branten • The last function of being human

What we call intuition or gut feeling is often precisely this: knowledge the body holds that has not passed through consciousness, but exists nonetheless, even though it has not yet found language.

Anna Branten • The last function of being human

We have learned not to trust intuition until we can explain it.

Anna Branten • The last function of being human

almost always we choose the rational – not because it is more true, but because it is more defensible.

The last function of being human

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Conscious thought is an extreme bottleneck. It handles only a vanishingly small part of the information flowing through the body. The rest is processed outside language – in the nervous system, in the unconscious, in what cannot yet be said but already knows.

Anna Branten • The immeasurable

The traditional mode of perceiving the invisible and therefore of perceiving the acorn is intuition. Intuition also includes what I have called mythic sensibility, for when a myth strikes us, it seems true and gives sudden insight.

James Hillman • The Soul's Code

Another important characteristic of intuition is the way it works. It does not expand slowly as a gradual suffusion of mood; nor does it advance by thought, step by step; nor does it come to its insight by a careful examination of sensate details that compose the whole object before me. As I said, intuition is clear, quick, and full. Like a

James Hillman • The Soul's Code

Our perceptions of people are mostly intuitive. We take them in as a whole—accent, clothes, build, expression, complexion, voice, stance, gestures, the regional, social, and class cues—all delivers itself at once, as a full gestalt, to intuition.