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Frances E. Vaughan
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“Intuition is true in the same way that sensation is true: it is your experience, and you know it for what it is.”
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“... intuition of spiritual truth is something you already have inside you. ... This kind of truth is recognized, not learned.”
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“Imagery is the universal language of the unconscious.”
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“Knowing that something is going to happen before it happens, for example, is not strange if you discard linear, spacebound notions of time. Intuition is a way of knowing that transcends both time and space.”
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“The willingness to be wrong, to make mistakes and give up the attachment to being right, is one factor that accelerates learning.”
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“Intuition is not opposed to reason, but works with it in a complementary fashion. Typically, flashes of intuitive insight follow the exhaustive use of logic and reason.”
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“... trying is usually an indication of being stuck. Trying to make something happen is not making it happen. Trying to observe the mind is not the same as observing it.”
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“Whatever is said may also be denied. Every realization contains the seeds of its opposite.”
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“Everyone has a chronological age, and everyone is also timeless. The essential being who you were as a baby and who you are today remains always the same.”
Frances E. Vaughan, U.S. psychologist, writer
(1935)