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 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.

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

(1207 – 1273 )

Love all.

(compiled by) : ram H singhal

Tree of Happiness

Wednesday Sufi Blog

Votes for Dancing

O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions’ beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.

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Now, sweet one,
Be wise.
Cast all your votes for Dancing!

― شمس الدین محمد حافظ /
Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez,
(1325 – 1389 )

Love All.

compiled : ram H singhal

for

Fragrant Breeze

( Monday poetry Blog )

‘Careless Whisper’

Released in 1984, ‘Careless Whisper’ has become one of the best loved songs from the 80s simply because it is one of the greatest love songs ever written. An infectious rhythm coupled with a sexy saxophone melody and George’s heart-felt vocals announced to the world that this was a brilliant solo artist with tales to tell. As a result, ‘Careless Whisper’ reached  No.1 in nearly 25 countries and sold almost six million copies worldwide – not bad for a first solo single!

An artist of extraordinary talent – he is sadly missed.

Love all.

(c) ram H singhal

Compiled for :Saturday Music Blog

Flow of Silence

Light Of your own Being

‘I wish I could show you,

When you are lonely or in darkness,

The Astonishing Light Of your own Being”

― شمس الدین محمد حافظ /
Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez,
(1325 – 1389 )

Love All.

compiled : ram H singhal

for

Fragrant Breeze

( Monday poetry Blog )

Let reality be reality

“Life is a series of natural

and

spontaneous changes.

Don’t resist them;

that only creates sorrow.

Let things flow naturally forward

in

whatever way they like.” 

Let reality be reality.

-Lao Tzu

(570-490 BC)

Love All.

Compiled : ram H singhal

for :Beyond the Rainbow

Thursday Zen notes