Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Guru, when I read that your method of writing poetry is the same as mine, I said: “The shishya’s method must be the same as the Guru’s,» but when I read the rest of your letter, I sat down! “Calm light of intuitive reflection”! O Lord, how to do that? Your Intuition says everything to you? Have you nothing to think whether right or wrong? Alas! how then can the shishya follow the Guru!
Good Heavens! After a life of sadhana you expect me still to “think” and what is worse think what is right or wrong. I don’t think, even; I see or I don’t see. The difference between intuition and thought is very much like that between seeing a thing and badgering one’s brains to find out what the thing can possibly be 
like. Intuition is truth-sight – The thing seen may not be the truth? Well, in that case it will at least be one of its hundred tails or at least a hair from one of the tails. The very first step in the supramental change is to transform all operations of consciousness from the ordinary mental to the intuitive, only then is there any hope of proceeding farther, not to, but towards the supramental. I must surely have done this long ago otherwise how could I be catching the tail of the supramental whale?