Daily Meditation: Friday, September 12, 1997

All living creatures, even animals, have an instinct …

09/12/1997

All living creatures, even animals, have an instinct allowing them to find a solution to their problems and a remedy for their pains. A sick animal, for instance, will instinctively find the plant which will cure it. And in many cases the instinct nature has given us also helps us human beings. But instinct alone is not enough. Instinct is a blind impulse belonging to the realm of the subconscious, and it is up to human beings to enlighten it and to bring it into consciousness. This instinct is a kind of intuition, but manifested in the lower regions, whereas true intuition belongs to the realms of the soul and the spirit. There is a great similarity, therefore, between instinct and intuition; in fact it is almost the same faculty, but manifested in two different regions. So, to help find the plant that will cure them, animals have a kind of intuition, or let us rather call it a flair, which has nothing to do with intelligence, knowledge, or consciousness. Whereas in evolved beings everything is conscious; they know.