The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don__ be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don__ have a say in the matter? Suppose we__e hardwired to trust__o believe in__ur instincts, regardless of whether they__e right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.
I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance
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That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don__ be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don__ have a say in the matter? Suppose we__e hardwired to trust__o believe in__ur instincts, regardless of whether they__e right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.
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