Russell Banks 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.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Your gut is always right.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.

If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.