"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation"
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The subtext is a spiritual reordering of authority. “Mind” isn’t intelligence here; it’s control. In Caddy’s worldview, intuition and inspiration aren’t vague feelings but a rival technology for truth, one that privileges receptivity over mastery. That’s why the final phrase swells into capital-R “Revelation”: she’s not selling a calmer lifestyle so much as an epistemology where meaning arrives, unbidden, when you stop interrogating it. The command to “let” your life be Revelation is crucial; it frames surrender as an active practice, a disciplined openness.
Context matters. Caddy, associated with the Findhorn Foundation and 20th-century New Age spirituality, speaks from an era when institutional religion felt stiff, psychotherapy was mainstreaming, and self-help was becoming a cultural infrastructure. Her appeal is celebrity-adjacent in the way gurus become famous: through lived example, communal myth, and the promise of direct access to guidance. The line works because it flatters a weary audience. If you’re exhausted by decision fatigue and self-optimization, it offers a permission slip that feels like liberation - and, for skeptics, like a warning about how easily “intuition” can be sanctified into unquestionable certainty.
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Caddy, Eileen. (2026, January 18). Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cease-trying-to-work-everything-out-with-your-11948/
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Caddy, Eileen. "Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cease-trying-to-work-everything-out-with-your-11948/.
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"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cease-trying-to-work-everything-out-with-your-11948/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.









