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“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition comes in several forms:
- a sudden flash of insight, visual or auditory
- a predictive dream
- a spinal shiver of recognition as something is occurring or told to you
- a sense of knowing something already
- a sense of deja vu
- a snapshot image of a future scene or event
- knowledge, perspective or understanding divined from tools which respond to the subconscious mind”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect; what you do now will create your own future.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition is an essential part of the whole experience of living. Although it will not help predict the future or how people will behave, using intuition as a guide makes life more rewarding. It helps you follow what seems to be the right path, even when social convention or common sense appears to tell differently”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“The only true experience is of the immediate present”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“There are responses which originate from joy. Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option, or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold. The dictionary defines it as immediate unreasoned perception.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“It is important to recognise that you may have dismissed intuitive experiences as pure chance when they occured. Now is the time to open your thoughts to the probability that you are far more intuitive than you ever realised.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realise”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

“Very disturbed and traumatised people are utterly selfish because they are not able to cope with more than their own inner nightmare.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“What you have to understand Sylvia is that I didn’t marry you for any other reason than that I wanted you in my life. You don’t have to do anything to be a joy to me. You can spend a whole day doing nothing and I shall be just as pleased to see you in Millers Lane waiting for me, or even not bothering to wait for me there, but staying here until I get home.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“I remember reading a quote by Jung once, ‘there is no such thing as a difficult child, just a child being mismanaged’.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“I have learned not to trust the stories we each have in our minds. They may be deeply mistaken. I learn this from Quakers, and also from Thich Nhat Hanh.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“Family abandonments are not usually taken lightly and frequently come with their own burdens of guilt, shame and regret along with that feeling of worthlessness that often accompanies the causes that led to this.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“We all need to learn from experience. We all need someone to give us that experience in the first place. We need to learn compassion, forgiveness, and humility.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“All certainty about all the things I’d previously felt confident about is being incrementally taken away from me. Mother is clever with words, and they don’t show on the outside, don’t leave scars and marks that other people can see. The signs are there of course, damaged children do tell you if you know how to read the signs. I know I still exhibit some of those sometimes when I watch people too closely, not feeling confident about their presence. This is a poem I wrote about it. Frozen Child I have a look, a certain kind of stare
that watches closely, intently.
A child monitoring her surroundings
for safety and unknown terrors. The watching appears rude, invasive,
but I’m not watching you,
just your body, for sudden moves,
just your face, in case it changes
from light to darkness.
It is that instant I await. Forewarned is forearmed
the child always ready,
prepared for the next attack,
never knowing where it will come from,
how it will manifest, just watching. A kind of stare, not looking at you
looking beyond at what might be there.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“I’ve always known things at a deeper intuitive level of wisdom beyond myself, as if I can dip my toes into a well of wisdom from ancient times, eternal perspectives that never become obsolete. When I read or hear or recognise such wisdom, it affects my body in peculiar ways, as if I am sinking into something utterly original and natural. I’ve learned to accept and embrace these insights”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“Ignorance can be an amazing boost to one’s confidence at times though. You don’t realise how much you don’t know and can learn through experience, sometimes called the hard way, but that’s ok too with gardening. Plants are quite forgiving.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“Mother’s Mother, Violet, is called ‘big Grandma’ since she is five feet nine inches tall. Functional but unflattering names for what should be a tender relationship, but it matches the reality. Tenderness is in short supply.”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries

“It strikes me how hard it is to appreciate people for their positive qualities when we are overwhelmed by their negative ones”
― Sylvia Clare, No Visible Injuries