Two Kinds of Intelligence
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,as a child in school memorizes facts and conceptsfrom books and from what the teacher says,collecting information from the traditional sciencesas well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind othersin regard to your competence in retaininginformation.
You stroll with this intelligencein and out of fields of knowledge, getting always moremarks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet, onealready completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox.
A freshnessin the center of the chest.
This other intelligencedoes not turn yellow or stagnate.
It's fluid,and it doesn't move from outside to insidethrough conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainheadfrom within you, moving out.
From the translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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