UnbornTao

Has it been proven by science, though? Or is it an estimation or an imagined future scenario? Not familiar with him, just playing devils' advocate.

Own your actions and their consequences.

I think you're still focusing on trivial matters. What is success and how does it come about? Take a look at that.

Yes, maybe. I'd leave notions such as soul, truth and love out of the picture here as they seem to be getting in the way. I've been taking issue with intuition being infallible in this thread. What results from your inquiry?

@Salvijus I prefer to openly look into things, as if from scratch. I don't think the love thing helps much in that, sorry.

If you claim to be love, how come you're speaking of it here as if it were an action, or an "impersonal person"? You mean yourself, right? Good and evil exist in relationship to you and to what you determine to be such, whatever that assessment is based on: morality, education, programming, culture, wishful thinking.

Thanks. We can see those relate to action, particularly to drives that are in service of oneself. Take two loving people, and at some point, their assessments about some matter or individual will differ.

What if one's intuition runs contrary to that ideal? "I can feel that person is in fact a witch." Again, my point is that the intuition doesn't have to be true, or factual, or even sensible. Foolish things can be made in the name of love. In any case, we're investigating what intuition is. Could you share examples of day-to-day examples of intuiting something? "I got a hunch that chocolate would make for a great lasagna."

@Salvijus Bring examples.

A starting point for our consideration:

Your intuition is correct, this one time. This is too flowery, 2 and 3 have some merit. What good does it make to paint specific things with such broad strokes? What is the experience of intuiting something? How come you're not addressing the plain fact that intuition can and does in fact fails, at least occasionally, without justifying that with "God"? Where else would an impulse originate from but you? Who's the one experiencing the impulse?

I invited you to bring up examples of intuiting anything both accurately and inaccurately. I like that, but it is overly rhetorical, metaphorical. It doesn't say much about what intuition really is. Isn't it also true that we make mistakes when operating from intuition, more often than not? Clarify projection vs intuition. Are you suggesting that intuition-based assessments are always correct?

Why? Again, bring to mind examples in your life when your intuition has been flawed -- I'm sure you can find many such instances, if you're honest.

The point is that it may arise as a subtle feeling-sense for a person, which they might call intuition. The same applies to people throughout history who have "intuited" that the Earth is flat or that extreme weather events are caused by the gods. The example was meant to illustrate that intuition can be unreliable -- not only because your inferences might be flawed, but also because the premises for your inferences might themselves be mistaken. Bring examples of intuiting something, both accurately and inaccurately. What is intuition for real and where does it originate, as if?

See? Infallible Seriously though, we are just aware of the end result of our so-called intuition, and taking it at face value, even though it might temporarily relief us of having to test its validity and accuracy, can be problematic. People have all kinds of intuitions about anything and that doesn't make it factual and functional. Just bring to mind times when your intuition has fallen flat on its face.

"I have a hunch that this person is a witch." -- Someone in the Middle Ages, probably More like: "A shadow upon mine heart telleth me this one be a witch!"

Nah, Obsidian is markdown-based, so you have complete control over your files, and it works offline. Notion might better suit other's needs, but I appreciate the suggestion.

Give Obsidian a try. I use a simple structure but you can learn to make a bunch of cool stuff with interlinking, plugins, etc.

Even the nature of life is unknown to us, let alone a presumed afterlife. Notice that these are being taken for granted as already-grasped, and from that, more conclusions follow.

Do you think that something external to you could bring that about?

Start with what happiness is as it might not be what we as a culture have in mind. If it comes from circumstances, then how come not everyone who meet such conditions, whatever they are, is happy? Not to make "happiness" seem esoteric, but how come Ramana was said to spend his time in a blissful state living in a cave while insects bit his legs? Was it a luxurious cave? Were the insects giving him massages? See, these were secondary to the matter, just circumstances.

Have you ever found yourself "tired" one moment, only to have that change all of a sudden? Notice none of what you mentioned is physical but is rather a conceptually-based activity. Not doing those frees up so much energy. Likely your dilemma is about mental limitations.

What are we referring to by happiness here, for real? Is it getting what you want? Can you be happy whether you get it or not?

When Brad Pitt calls for help, you listen. Those reflect my Photoshop skill level.

That's it -- I'm moving to Shangri-La.