Your Independent Intuition
It is not the intent of any influence that comes from outside yourself and into your inner being–whether from secular or holy sources–to silence your spirit and mute your independent intuition. Rather, its intent is to bathe you with a flow of light, so that you will absorb it into the essence of who you are.
In this way, and from the midst of this, your independent sense will grow ever stronger. When you are desolated by internal shoddiness, you think that the intention of everything that comes from outside yourself is to abrade your independent sense of reality, to make you crumple, and you totter. You become short-tempered and you cease to grow.
Together, the holy and the secular influence your spirit. When you integrate them, you are enriched. You must take what is fitting from each of them. From the holy, take the light of life and an inner character. From the secular, take the container, the superficial understanding that provides a basis for grasping the content. The secular provides material for analogies and explanations, for contexts in which to understand the ways of the world and good character traits.
There is a spirit of abundance that is the awareness of division between the holy and the secular. That abundance becomes ever more clear when you gather the wealth of these various sources. It strengthens and illumines your spirit.At last, you come to the innermost circle of Torah. The diseased cloud within you that hides the Torah begins to glow more and more with the light of Torah. Out of the mist, lights are revealed in their full beauty.
Orot Hakodesh I, pp. 67-68
From the Well of Kindness, Pg 24 hosted at Jewish Spiritual and Beautiful