"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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Eileen Caddy, cofounder of the Findhorn community in Scotland, urges a shift from compulsive reasoning to a more spacious, inner way of knowing. To "work everything out with your minds" names a modern habit of control: planning, projecting, and optimizing until vitality leaks away. Her counterproposal, to live by intuition and inspiration, is not an anti-intellectual stance but a reordering of authority. The mind remains a tool, yet it should serve rather than dominate. Intuition here is the felt sense that arises when attention is quiet and receptive; inspiration is the quickening that follows, the energy to act.
"Let your whole life be Revelation" lifts the counsel from technique to theology. The capital R suggests an ongoing disclosure of meaning and guidance, not a single thunderbolt. Life becomes a conversation rather than a conquest. Caddy spoke from experience: guided by an inner voice, she helped build Findhorn in the 1960s, a time when many questioned rigid rationalism. The flourishing of its gardens on poor soil, whether read as literal miracle or as a parable, embodies her point that cooperation with subtler intelligences can produce results that calculation alone would dismiss as impossible.
There is a practical wisdom here for creative work, leadership, and personal discernment. Analysis excels in stable conditions with clear variables; in complexity and uncertainty it often freezes into overthinking. Intuition synthesizes patterns we cannot yet articulate, drawing on memory, embodiment, and empathy. It does not excuse impulsiveness. Caddy’s path implies disciplines of stillness, listening, and humility, so that intuition is tempered by conscience and tested in small, courageous steps.
Taken seriously, the line dismantles the fantasy of total control. It invites trust: act when the inner signal is clear, pause when it is not, and watch meaning reveal itself in events and encounters. The promise is not ease, but aliveness the sense that life is speaking and you are awake enough to hear.
"Let your whole life be Revelation" lifts the counsel from technique to theology. The capital R suggests an ongoing disclosure of meaning and guidance, not a single thunderbolt. Life becomes a conversation rather than a conquest. Caddy spoke from experience: guided by an inner voice, she helped build Findhorn in the 1960s, a time when many questioned rigid rationalism. The flourishing of its gardens on poor soil, whether read as literal miracle or as a parable, embodies her point that cooperation with subtler intelligences can produce results that calculation alone would dismiss as impossible.
There is a practical wisdom here for creative work, leadership, and personal discernment. Analysis excels in stable conditions with clear variables; in complexity and uncertainty it often freezes into overthinking. Intuition synthesizes patterns we cannot yet articulate, drawing on memory, embodiment, and empathy. It does not excuse impulsiveness. Caddy’s path implies disciplines of stillness, listening, and humility, so that intuition is tempered by conscience and tested in small, courageous steps.
Taken seriously, the line dismantles the fantasy of total control. It invites trust: act when the inner signal is clear, pause when it is not, and watch meaning reveal itself in events and encounters. The promise is not ease, but aliveness the sense that life is speaking and you are awake enough to hear.
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