Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however, is how we can gain access to the potentials of knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.
– Ira Progoff from At a Journal Workshop, an excellent book, perhaps the best I’ve read, on journaling.

Loon Lake Arising

Butterfly Blue

Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to me as my own thoughts… My journal should be the record of my love. I would write in it only of the things I love, my affection for any aspect of the world, what I love to think of…I feel ripe for something… yet can’t discover what that thing is. I feel fertile merely. It is seed time with me. I have lain fallow long enough.
- Henry David Thoreau, in his journal. Thoreau And The Art Of Life.