Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering

CHAPTER 14
HOW TO FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary.” — Steve Jobs
In a previous chapter, we talked about how we don’t need to think in
order to thrive in the world and that the way we do thrive is to
remove the thinking we have going on. The state of flow is a state of
pure oneness and a direct connection to everything around us.
Because there is no separation when we are in that state, we can
also say that it is a state where we are in direct connection and
alignment with God/Universe/Infinite Intelligence.
What thinking does is sever this connection we have with the
divine, causing us to feel stress, frustration, anger, resentment,
depression, and all of these negative emotions many of us feel on a
daily basis. This is why some religions describe Hell as the complete
separation from God.
From now on for simplicity’s sake, I’ll be using the term non-
thinking instead of flow, but they really are synonymous when I use
them in this book. This state of non-thinking also means a direct
connection to Infinite Intelligence.
Many will attribute the state of non-thinking or flow with a
particular activity that we love to do and that’s the only time we can
be in flow. This is far from the truth. We can be in a state of non-
thinking at any point in time. The only time we can really be in a state
of non-thinking is in the present moment. We can only see reality in
the present moment and when we are actively thinking, it means we
are either in the past or future (which don’t exist). Only in the present
moment can the truth be found. This is why all of the spiritual
masters and leaders always teach to meditate, pray, and to be in the
present moment. In the Bible, when Moses asks God her name, She
replies with “I am.” God didn’t say that She was or will be (because

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they don’t exist), but simply with “I am.” God, truth, the Universe,
freedom, peace, joy, and love (these terms are all synonymous) can
only be found, and therefore experienced, in the present.
When you’re following your intuition, it means you are trusting
yourself and having faith that you always have the inner wisdom
necessary to help guide you through everything in life. This is a state
of non-thinking or flow.