To make aligned choices and have extraordinary discernment, we need to tune into the non-intellectual knowing available to us.
When we think about life, our mind is trying to understand (and often rule!) something that is prior to it. And that’s where it hits a limitation.
The cosmos, the universe, stars, nature, living beings are higher up the chain of creation than our mind. And when we rationalise and intellectualise, and try to chop life up and fit it into neatly devised commonsensical categories, we invariably hit a wall, because the mind’s trying to contain and organise something that’s much vaster and more complex than it is. Our intellect is limited in its ability to comprehend and know what it is the product of.
There’s a deeper, more visceral form of knowing—a gnosis—that’s available to us only spiritually, as a felt-sense. It’s an instinctual and intuitive form of knowing that can’t be reduced to words—because words, too, are an abstraction of reality and can’t contain what’s prior to them.
It’s that experience that brilliant writing and story-telling evoke whereby what touches us most deeply is what’s between the lines. When the unspoken speaks louder than what’s on the page.
The more we hone our ability to comprehend life both intellectually and viscerally, the more we are available to the full extent of our resources and to the universal intelligence of life. That’s the domain of clarity, discernment, alignment and flow with life.