The Wisdom That Finds Us: On the Importance of Intuition.

We live in a culture that celebrates effort, reason, and productivity. Knowledge is assumed to be the result of calculation, research, or logic. And yet, the most important turns in our lives—the decision to change careers, the recognition of a partner’s truth, the sudden creative breakthrough—often arrive as hunches. Intuition is not the fruit of conscious labor but of unconscious ripening. Something within us, out of sight, gathers the fragments of experience, dream, and feeling, and suddenly pushes forth an insight like a flower breaking through the soil.

Jung reminds us that the work of intuition lies not in producing it but in catching it. The psyche offers; the ego must be attentive enough to receive.