Endlessness

Endlessness

He said:

brevity is the soul of wit..

and said T. S. Eliot:

We can say of Shakespeare, that

never has a man turned so little

knowledge to such great account..

and said Rumi:

knowledge of the world is ignorance..

The endlessness of knowledge

is blessing and curse..

Google is one name..

It is easy to forget

to not allow attention

to experience that

in which all knowledge

appears..

To recognize knowledge

flowing in and out of that

in which it appears..

Knowledge in isolation

we place first

in idolatrous fashion

as we search for

the water in the wave...

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.” 

― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی