Impulse and intuition

Not many people can tell the difference, and while many act on impulse, very few know when to trust their intuition. It is intuition that generally poses a mystery. When is it different from a premonition, for example? By comparison, impulses are very familiar. The impulse to have another piece of dessert when you know you shouldn’t offers a perfect example. Impulses are sudden urges of desire or emotion. Someone who is hot-tempered finds it hard to resist the impulse to get angry.

Intuition isn’t about desire, urges, or impulses. It is a quiet knowing from the silent mind. There is no urgency about it, and if the intuition is genuine, it feels certain. Here is where the ego leads us astray. Hunches are just another version of the ego’s desire to be right and to have things go its own way.


The result is that we all listen to our ego’s fears, wishes, dreams, hunches, and premonitions far more than we should. They have no basis in deeper awareness. Intuition isn’t personal. It comes from the knowingness of pure consciousness; therefore, it lies deeper than the active thinking mind.

There is no school for intuition, which can also be called insight.


Each person must cultivate it and recognise it on their own. Generally speaking, however, meditation is the best route for developing insight and intuition.

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