EXPERIENCE IS NOT INTUITION. INTUITION IS NOT EXPERIENCE.
Welcome to Cristiano’s Blog. Italian-born wanderer. Ayahuasca awakened my perception of consciousness. I write about plant teachings, shadow work, and transformation—for those seeking wholeness and exploring the authentic Self and spirit.
You’re catching the wrong train.
Life is not business. Life must be lived now, not based on experience. Isn’t experiential living rooted in the past and projected onto the future? Taking us away from the present moment.
We take advice from parents whose guidance is shaped by their past, not our present. We trust friends who tell us what to do, even when they haven’t figured it out for themselves. We mold ourselves to fit into workplaces, believing we must live as our colleagues do. We hold onto partners who don’t truly have our best interests at heart, afraid to separate.
In doing so, we silence our own voice. We trade our intuition for approval. And before we realize it, we are left with no space to explore our truth, no room to express ourselves authentically—until it’s too late. Until we wake up resentful, not just at the world, but at ourselves—for not having the confidence to think subjectively, independently, and to listen to the whispers of our own mind.
How can someone respond to a new situation based on an experience? Do you realize how absurd that is?
“My aim is to live on the edge of naiveness—where the awe for the present moment meets the reality of the life that wants me to create it—elegantly and romantically.” —Cristiano Colla
We don’t deserve to be prisoners of our past. The people we interact with don’t deserve to be held hostage by our past. What faults do they have? None, zero, nada.
The world keeps reminding us of our past and the experiences we had, like a train running backwards—relentlessly, insistently. But that is enough. A lot. We mustn’t jump on that train; we must let it disappear into the distance and board the next one—where life is awaiting us.
Clearly, living based on experience breeds resentment leading to stagnation—blocking our growth. This living doesn’t allow us to enjoy the present moment, taking away the innate awareness and spontaneity that makes us intuitive beings—the ability to make instant decisions by trusting our primal gut instinct, our genuine heart, and our logical mind, combining for the ever-balanced cocktail of spiritual alignment.
Experience is not intuition and intuition is not experience.
Experience is not to disregard entirely; it is also the part of our minds where we keep our dearest memories. However, merely living because we remember is just survival.
The life we expect is always in front of us—here, where empowerment lies, and creativity thrives. Our experience is a tool to discover our truth and to change the narratives we tell ourselves, not an excuse to stay stuck in the false sense of self-reassurance that it brings.
To break free from an experiential mindset, we must check in with our emotional state to uncover what’s holding us back from living the life we are meant to live and have the courage to take the leap from the cliff of survival into the ocean of misericordia.
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.” — Alan Watts
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