Wednesday, May 1, 2024
When your intuitive sense sharpens, and you start listening to and complying with your gut instinct, it will guide you to where most people are too afraid to go – into the darkness. It will take you away from “conventional” thinking. Robert Frost so eloquently put it this way in his poem, “The Road Not Taken.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
An independent thinker is one who thinks independently. But independently from what? – from the odds, the statistics, what others think, common thought, what “they” say, what everybody else is doing, what the leading authority said, and from what the physical evidence “suggests.”
When Jesus said to sell all of your belongings and follow me, he didn’t mean it literally. That was his way of saying to be an independent thinker. Be an independent person. Seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it? But to “follow me” doesn’t mean to follow the story, the man, or the individual Jesus, the person. It means to follow your heart, your inner revelation, your gut, your instinct – what he called “The Father.”
Whatever that still voice of reason is, follow it. You can call it whatever you want to – the LORD, God, Buddha, Allah, Atman, The Universe – it simply doesn’t matter. This power is nameless. It’s the inner power to lead you to all manner of independence – ultimate freedom from “conventional thinking” and to lead you to your own understanding of wisdom. It is very wise to follow your intuitive sensibility. But why is it so hard? Because it might just tell you to sell everything – to give it all up, or to go at it all alone. That requires faith. “Conventional thinking” is faithless.
Following is hard, but the road less traveled will make the biggest difference. Everyone else is on the crowded highway to nowhere.