Shakti Gawain Quotes

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.