' Reason as an ally '...

He would not be so bad a judge of value as to prefer reason over intuition, whenever he had the absolute certainty that it was intuition.

But past experience has shown how difficult it is to arrive at such certitudes, how deceptive are the masks which impulse, desire, rashness, and selfishness can assume.

Until, therefore, his development has reached the point where a genuine intuition is at once recognized as such and a pseudo-intuition quickly detected for what it is, he must not abandon the use of reason but rather regard it as a most valuable ally.



-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 1: Intuition the Beginning > # 195
Paul Brunton