Please read the following slowly, prayerfully and aloud to yourself:
Two Kinds of Intelligence – Rumi (1207-1273)
“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 the conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.”
What word, phrase or image seems to speak to your heart, the taproot of your being? The heart is your organ of spiritual perception. It uses poetry, metaphor, paradox – calling you to open inner spaces, deep within, to awaken the mystery of God’s Presence already within you. With you in seeking to live with an open heart.
“Glory be to God whose power working within us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.” [Ephesians 3:20]
Pray for peace and justice in Ferguson, MO.
Pray for all who are living with cancer
Pray for all who are hungry – One in Seven are hungry in the USA – Support your food bank
We are all sparks of the Divine flame
Blessed Be
Boldly Be
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