Bright brain, intelligence, intuition, emotions, and creativity
Bright brain, intelligence, intuition, emotions, and creativity. 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 forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · No Self No Problem by Chris Niebauer
In the book
"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 forgotten the gift." (Sample epigraph — replace with one of your own, or with a line of mine you remember from the kitchen table.) In the last chapter I confessed something at the very end, and I want to begin here by owning it fully. […] The old idea that reason should rule and passion should be chained turned out to be exactly backward: reasoning itself requires the passions. The intuitive mind, as the epigraph says, is the sacred gift; the rational mind is only the faithful servant. The promise, then, is not control your feelings until you have none. It is the older, wiser line: control your emotions so that your emotions do not control you. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)