Intuition

"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!"    
- Rumi

A few months ago I was sitting in the lounge of a tequila bar late one night (please, don't ask why), and this Deepak Chopra, mystical, universe following man turned to me and said, "every bad decision you've ever made in your life, you knew." He looked like a normal, semi-hip, thirty something year old man. "Think back to all of them and I guarantee, you knew it was a bad decision."

There weren't that many bad decisions to look back to.  But nevertheless, I got the point: we have a lot more power within ourselves than we--than society--gives us credit for.  Intuitive power.

I know we all--myself included--tend to look for answers everywhere except where they are found: within ourselves.

I want you all to know the power, the intellect, the strength we all possess in our own core. (Osho would say, think with your navel and not with your mind. You have a mind, but you are not your mind).

Sometimes the right decision makes no sense. Sometimes logic just doesn't feel right.  Sometimes the best thing to do seems like the worst.  Sometimes you need to listen to you, just you.  Ultimately, nobody knows you, knows your life, as well as you do. And it is you who is in control. Your life is up to you, and not up to your friends, to your family, to society.

You are the one who needs to live with every decision you make, so you, only you, must decide. Thanks to the random tequila drinking, spiritually inspiring man, I am fully aware of this fact.

Most importantly, remember to channel your inner fearlessness.  This will be helpful when it seems like you're going against the grain.  (If you've forgotten all about fearlessness, click here)