Highest intelligence: Intuition, the all-knowing wisdom of the soul.

All of God’s children are endowed with the highest intelligence: intuition, the all-knowing wisdom of the soul.

Intuition is that power of Spirit inherited by the soul by which truth is perceived directly, without the medium of any other faculty.

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm. 

Nearly everyone has had the experience of an inexplicably correct “hunch” or has transferred his thoughts accurately to another person.

Every man has the power of intuition, as he has the power of thought. 

As thought can be cultivated, so intuition can be developed. 

In intuition we are in tune with Reality — with the world of Bliss, with the “unity in diversity,” with the inner laws governing the spiritual world, with God. …but it needs to be developed:  

In the life of every person, two forces of knowledge are operative from birth: 

(1) the power of human reason, along with its satellites of sensation, perception, conception, and so forth; 

(2) the power of intuition. 

The former is developed through social institutions and interactions. 

The latter usually remains uncultured, undeveloped, because of want of proper guidance and methods of training.

So long as one’s intuition remains undeveloped, he is guided mainly by the limited understanding of mortal intelligence, with only occasional promptings of intuitive wisdom. 

Thus he engages in some good actions, but also in many wrong actions, and acquires many bad habits. 

Through the operation of the law of cause and effect, or karma, he finds himself following helplessly his own self-created destiny, which often leads to misery.

A life can be successful, healthy, and complete — balanced with wisdom and happiness — when activity is guided by God’s inner, intuitive direction.

The only way to know and to live in truth is to develop the power of intuition. 

Then you will see that life has a meaning, and that no matter what you are doing the inner voice is guiding you.

While animals are guided primarily by instinct, and ordinary man is guided by his ego, the yogi who is united to the Self is guided by the soul.

This intuitive power can be developed by learning the step-by-step methods of scientific deepest meditation that lead to Self-realization. - Gurudev Paramhansa Yogananda.