Two Kinds of Intelligence

Intellect is of two kinds: the first is acquired, which you learn as a child in school, from books, teachers, thought, and remembrance, from meanings and from fine and original sciences. Your intellect increases over others, but you are burdened by retaining it. You are like a tablet of memory in the cycle and turn, but the preserved tablet is one that has passed beyond this. The other intellect is a gift from God, its fountain is within the soul. When the water of knowledge gushes from the heart, it neither becomes stale nor old nor yellow. And if its source is blocked, what does it matter, for it continuously flows from the home, moment by moment. Acquired intellect is like streams that flow into a house from the streets. If its waterway is blocked, it becomes deprived; seek the spring from within yourself.