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Intuition is the long awaited decision maker indicator gathered through all of your life experiences

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There's wisdom to be found in "intuition," yes. But intuitions don't simply arise spontaneously, fully formed and inherently wise.

Intuitions emerge out of a phenomenological context, from a vast web of experiences and interpretations of experiences, from myriad influences, from an ever-evolving sense of the Good.

So "intuitions" cannot, and ought not, be taken as inherently good, but as provisional hypotheses about what's good -- hypotheses that are always tentative, and subject to our continual curiosity and questioning.

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Of course, intuition is complex. You're absolutely right. Intuition is like a friend who's been with us, learning from all our experiences. I don’t intend that we should follow this friend blindly. Instead, I’m saying that we ought not to drown out this friend's voice with all the noise around us.

By clearing away distractions, we're not just accepting intuition as the ultimate truth without question. We're giving it space to speak, then listening closely, and deciding carefully if what it's suggesting makes sense in our lives.

And effortless here doesn’t mean never having to make decisions. It's the idea that when we’re aligned with our true selves and the universe, things simply start to flow more smoothly.

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Mar 22
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Clearing away the distractions is not effortless, that is not my argument. I'm saying that life becomes more effortless after clearing away them.

Intuition is not just shaped by the phenomena around us, although they matter a great deal too. Natural human instincts play a big role in it, and it's clear to me that living against our natural ways cloud these instincts.

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Mar 23
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Excuse me but what? Of course there are human instincts that are inherent to human beings. Just because you think it's completely impossible to distinguish our natural needs from man-made distractions, doesn't make it true. Maybe take a moment next time to think about what you're trying to say.

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