Two Kinds of Intelligence

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 traditional sciences

as wel as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or being others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information.  you stroll with this inltelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always

more marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of table, one

already completed and preserved in side 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 fuid,

and it does not move from outside to inside

through the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.

RUmi.