Jane Mara

"The more you come to realise that thinking is not just analytical and rational, it rather has an irrational and feeling component to it. So I have learnt to be quite sensitive to what I am feeling, when I am thinking, because the feeling comes first, often, and actually creates the thoughts."

"On the 20th of September 1991, I woke up and my gut feeling said: “Today something is going to happen and it is not looking good.” I doubted my intuition, analyzing all the other factors in my environment, like the weather conditions, my mind-set and general health. I finally dismissed the intuition as meaning: “Something may happen today, but it may happen to someone else.” At 11am that morning, I was hit by an avalanche and fell 900 meters —almost a vertical kilometer — and was buried alive in the valley at the bottom. I managed to dig my way out of the snow and ice, with only 60 seconds remaining before the ice would have set permanently around me."