Instinct is IT
You have to become very still and listen while your inner voice -- the very essence of you -- tells you who you are. You'll know you've found it when every cell in your body practically vibrates; when you're filled up by what you're doing instead of being drained by it. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea...
It takes hours daily of blind instinctive moving and fumbling to find the revealing gesture, and the process goes on for weeks before I am ready to start composing. Nor can I think any of this out sitting down. My body does it for me. It happens.
Dancer & choreographer Agnes De Mille - from her book Dance to the Piper
I definitely agree with a quote of Jean Houston when she says, "I think a lot of giftedness, though by no means all, has to do with having a broader palette of perceptual capacity, being highly sensitive to all the senses."
But I think it goes beyond the senses, as we know it. It's our ability to intuit the mystery. And it's through our capacity to intuit the mystery that we know cosmic truths about ourselves. And it's exactly the same thing as creativity. The psychic forces or the creative forces come through in exactly the same way, in that you have to be open and receptive to them if they come through, rather than effort or force anything. So it's a whole different way of perceiving than is simply through the analytic mind.
Judith Orloff, MD
Being bound to one's intuition promotes a confident reliance on it, no matter what. It changes a woman's guiding attitude from 'What will be, will be' to 'Let me see all there is to see.'
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
