Saturday, July 31, 2021

A Little Rumi for Sunday

 

photo credit: Richard Quick

Two Kinds of Intelligence - a poem by Rumi

“There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
As a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
There is another kind of tablet, one
Already completed and preserved inside you.
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.”

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