Intelligence: By Rumi

Two Kinds of Intelligence

by Rumi

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 conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

From The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks. Copyright 2004. Fair use intended.

A Lot Happening on April 1st

Art isn't to depict what we know but to identify what we need to understand. 

I wrote this on my grease board and have been rereading it for months. It really resonates with me. Unfortunately I didn't write down the attribution, but I'm fairly certain it came from the mouth of Francesco Clemente (I am an admirer).

Discovered Khandro Net - good site on Tibetan Buddhism.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

-- Matsuo Basho

Discovered Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, and also discovered what-when-how.com.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

-- Jane Austen

From an NPR article on reading and the brain: "...reading is a cultural practice of recent invention. Whereas it is likely that human beings have been talking and singing for some 75,000 years (give or take 25,000), we are pretty certain that writing is at most a few thousand years old."

From the book Talent Masters: "Talent will be the big differentiator between companies that succeed and those that don't. Those that win will be led by people who can adapt their organizations to change, make the right strategic bets, take calculated risk, conceive and execute new value - creating opportunities, and build and rebuild competitive advantage.

I particularly like those last five words and think this is the key.

I think I've shared this African proverb before, but it makes me smile, and I do so love it.

You don't have to be tall to see the moon.

Check out The Invisible Gorilla -- here. It's worth looking at the videos.

Hope all is well.

No Music. No Life.

No Music. No Life. Three of my favorites...



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