"There are two kinds of
intelligence:
One acquired,
as a child in school
memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what
the teacher says,
collecting information from
the traditional sciences as
well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise
in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind
others in regard to your
competence in retaining
information.
You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge,
getting always more marks on
your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet,
one already completed
and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its
springbox.
A freshness in the center of
the chest.
This other intelligence does not
turn yellow or stagnate.
It’s fluid and it doesn't move
from outside to inside,
through the conduits
of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing
is a fountainhead
from within you,
moving out."
"Soul, a moving river.
Body, the riverbed."
❤ Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
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