Intuition and the Creation of a Better World
Quotations — intuit : intuitive : intuition : service : serve
This selection of quotations explores intuitive perception from many different points of view.
There are two indexes: subject and author. You can either click on a subject and read all the quotations on that subject, or you can click on an author and read the quotations by a particular writer.
Highlights for July / August
Whether it is a place like Galapagos or a place like our office, if we are serious about our work we tend to find ourselves apprenticed to something much larger than we expected, something that calls on more of our essence than we previously imagined, something seemingly raw and overpowering. The young, exhausted lawyer glimpses, late one evening, the enormous commitment needed for her future partnership; the apprentice violin maker can only marvel at the older man's simultaneous ease and absolute precision with the tiny wood plane. Seemingly superhuman forces always call on individual human beings to simplify themselves. A kind of simplification, achieved day by day, hour by hour, in our given work, right into the essence of what needs to be done. That simplified essence can terrify us …. And that simplified essence is not to be found so easily, as T. S. Eliot indicated, using the metaphor of the sea so brilliantly. It seems to be hidden, between the waves themselves, because indeed, newly arrived at the edge, we have not yet developed the faculties that will allow us to see the pattern in full.
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always –
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything) …
T.S. Eliot. 'Four Quartets'
David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea : Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity. New York, Riverhead Books, 2002, pp 39-40
SUBJECT INDEX
Creativity, Imagination & Vision
Cultivating the Intuition
Definitions
Inspiration & Dreams
Intuition in Architecture
Intuition in Science
Intuitive Service
Nature of the Intuition
Straight Knowledge
AUTHOR INDEX
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Abdi, M.H.
Agni Yoga
Alberts, Ton
Anderson, William
Ariyaratne, A.T.
Assagioli, Roberto
Aurobindo, Sri
Bache, Christopher
Bachofen, J.J.
Bailey, Alice
Baring, Anne
Bergman, Ciel
Bernbaum, Edwin
Brunton, Paul
Capra, Fritjof
Carr, H. Wildon
Coelho, Paulo
Collins, Cecil
de Chardin, Teilhard
Eco, Umberto
Einstein, Albert
Ferrucci, Piero
Finser, Torin
Fox, Matthew
Gawain, Shakti
Goodwin, Brian
Govinda, Lama Anagarika
Hall, Sir Ernest
Hamilton, Craig
Havel, Vaclav
Heidenreich, Alfred
Hillman, James
Hoyle, Fred
Humphreys, Christmas
Intuition Magazine
Intuition Magazine Online
Jacka, Judy
Jefferies, Richard
Jung, Carl Gustav
Kamenetz, Rodger
Khan, Hazrat Inayat
Kokoschka, Oscar
Lorimer, David
Lovelock, James
Macy, Joanna
Okri, Ben
Oxford Dictionary
Pascal, Blaise
Plato
Plotinus
Raine, Kathleen
Redfield, James
Robinson, Edward
Roerich, Helena
Salinger, J.D.
Sardello, Robert
Shah, Idries
Shelley, Percy.Bysshe.
Smith, Huston
Soutar, William
Sumedho, Ajhan
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tarnas, Richard
Tchaikovsky
Thakar, Vimala
van der Post, Laurens
Vaughan, Frances
Vinoba Bhave
Whitmore, Diana
Whyte, David
Wickes, Frances
Zukav, Gary
Pineault, Annie
Batchelor, Stephen
Needleman, Jacob
Hyde, Lewis
Steiner, Rudolf
Rogers, Carl
Godwin, Robert W.
Harpur, Patrick
Abhishiktananda, Swami
Noddings, Nel & Shore, Paul J.
Laszlo, Ervin
Salk, Jonas
Armstrong, Karen
