Four happens to be Following Your Intuition. I am not totally sure what this means. It is sort of a shady topic living in this culture with so much emphasis on brain power. That falls short of what I what to say but I will go on. Somehow following one’s intuition takes faith. It is not the path followed generally by most. It takes faith in the overall goodness of things and in the belief that one is called to certain challenges, efforts, ways…
For instance I feel that the Camino in Spain calls people to it. That is an easy one to sell. I am so happy that it is blossoming so. It’s graduates will make a difference in the overall dynamic of the world.
One has to be at home with mystery I think to understand intuition and to put it fully to use. And mystery has to be seen as a positive thing not as an obstruction. It can and has to be seen as a font not as a wall.
So, this factor fits into my second category which I characterized as ones that I was doing pretty well on but could use improvement. I don’t know exactly what improvement would look like, I just sense that there is more to it then I realize or put to use. Again it seems shady or shadowy.
This also plays into the notion that there are no coincidences. That things happen in their own time and exactly as they should if we just have the faith to understand that and go with it.
Well, have to go and pack for my Friday visit to the hospital. Take care, love you, Felipe.
These are wonderful posts Felipe. I feel as if I have entered a learning conversation. Your thoughts on these radical remission variables, spark my own thinking. Today, reading about intuition, considering my own experiences with “it” (whatever “it” is, not the function of a particular body part, or maybe it is… as in the saying: “my gut says…”) I re-read what you wrote and the following sentence(s) leaped off the blog.
“I don’t know exactly what improvement would look like, I just sense that there is more to it then I realize or put to use.”
Sounds like intuition at work to me.
Thanks for sharing and stimulating so much of my own thinking. All perfect! Keep going. Can’t wait for #5.
Catherine ~ Thanks for the kudos. This is an interesting process for me and glad that it is sparking something in your thinking. Hung out with Dr Zucker Wednesday evening and we went over some of this stuff. Will you be here for Mass on Sunday or are you out of town? I’m loosing track. Felipe.x
Hola Felipe,
Like Catherine, I am loving these posts! I read this one yesterday, but needed a bit more of reflection to comment… “Follow your intuition” for me is “trusting that whatever I feel it is what I have to do” is in fact the right thing, even if my brain says something different, even if society says something different, is the right thing. It is a sort of those decisions or paths or ways of walking that you take because of “trusting”… what we “trust in”? I don’t know, but there is always that voice that is even silent -or as Catherine says, it speaks “in the gut”-, that tells you that “that” is the right thing to do despite all else.
It sounds a lot like “a leap of faith”, “this that you know in your bones”, that “something that tells you”, or your “sixth sense”, but for me, it truly is this “longing for belonging” that as John O’Donohue explained, comes from the ancient clay we are all made of, that knows where you belong and wants to take you there, if you allow.
Something told me that I had to keep reading and writing this book, and took that flight to Seattle… and it was totally right… because I feel I truly belong to this neighborhood!
Clay Love,
Cris
Cris ~ yes to all of that! This is an interesting book for me/us because of the way it way compiled, that it came from a thousand people not from an idea in one person’s head. It sort of grew out of the clay. And not only any thousand people but ones that somehow plugged into something off the beaten path. But you don’t see that til you get to the end. And more specifically intuition can be tricky, or at least tricky to talk or write about. It seems sort of shallow to the thinking mind but actually maybe it is based on thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of experience. Keep close loves, Felipe.x