The Intuitive Mind

FROM STEVE:

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind, a faithful servant …..we have created a society that honors the servant and forgets the gift …..Albert Einstein

In the olden days, people looked at new inventions and asked not only what good they could do, but also what harm they could do.

As AI creeps into our daily life, some of us are fascinated, watching it synthesize thoughts, search out information and present it quickly. It’s sort of like having the smartest kid in the classroom helping you with your homework. It’s wonderfully condensed research done in a few seconds and of course it feels amazing and magical. Very useful for example in the health situations where you plug-in your symptoms and get a diagnosis especially if we have a complex diagnosis and have about seven or eight symptoms.  There is conversation about AI becoming a sentient being. Hmmm 🤔 

We also must wonder what is the downside of AI.

I have a friend that serves as a guru type person for me and he answered this question. He said our greatest wisdom comes from inside ourselves and not from outside ourselves, so AI  is the servant. It focuses more on the informational  logical part of existence. The downside is it distracts from our looking deeply into ourselves. There are much greater things that we can do internally in terms of creating a life that is joyful.

Good living depends on heart,soul, connection with others, gratitude,  comfortability with living in the unknown, and using imagination in taking steps to dream and adventure.

Intuition is the voice of spiritual life….the  God within us. It helps us see the mystery of life …. a world that is changing rapidly.  We came from nothing and disappear into nothing ……ashes to ashes,  dust to dust.

For me life is God‘s little school room where we daily learn lessons about how to live well. We have to do the work ourselves, and we can’t depend on the smartest kid in the class to do the work for us. 

FRIM DEBBIE:

From Albert Einstein –

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

For the past 14 months Steve and I have relied on mantras, quotes, and folklorist sayings to communicate what is essentially impossible to capture in words. One of my favorites has been “Perception is the greater part of reality.”  So I loved hearing this quote as our writing prompt this morning. What I perceive as beautiful awards me a sense of awe. What I perceive as ugly can cause me to turn my gaze in another direction. Similarly with good/bad, abundance/scarcity, happy/sad and so on. Amazingly, when I take responsibility for my perceptions I can change the world!

Some of our other useful phrases are:

It is what it is.

Go with the flow.

Maintain an attitude of gratitude. 

If the Lord is willin’ & the creek don’t rise. 

Always we begin again. 

There are others. 

This morning Steve read from “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”  Remember that book? How many retreats were built around that it? Many!  The book opens with Einstein’s quote.

 Steve loves to paint and sketch. He is very good at changing his perspective. He can easily paint what he perceives. I am more inclined to paint what I think I “see”. We keep a set of framed pears in the kitchen at Sadie’s Place. We painted them at a retreat (loosely based on the book) way back during the first year of our marriage. We weren’t sitting together when we were painting. Somehow we had both chosen to paint the same pear. But the differences were obvious. Both are nice pictures. But Steve’s pear is luscious and soft. Mine looks like it isn’t ripe at all. A very nice and obvious representation of a pear, but don’t try to eat it!

I enjoy playing around with this quote. Exploring the actions of my rational thought process interacting with the intuitive. I juggle a lot of plates. I need help from my rational mind to keep everything running. But truthfully, it’s my intuitive nature that ultimately guides me through this mystery called  Life. 

And I do credit perception as the best way I know to look for the good in everything (Jason Miraz song title) 😜

Always,  I seek a gentler encounter with reality. I don’t deny or hide from reality.  I just try to keep it in perspective.