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Intellect and Love


Oh no, an intellectual among her lovers?!
a beauty like her? Faugh! Impossible!

Keep the brainy ones far from her door,
keep the bathhouse dung smoke from the East Wind!

Sorry, no intellectuals admitted here....
but a lover? Ah, a hundred salaams!

Intellect deliberates, Intellect reflects ___
and meanwhile Love evaporates into the stratosphere.

By the time Intellect finds a camel for the Hajj,
Love has climbed Mt. Sinai.

Love comes and gags me : "Scribbler!
Forget mere verse. The starship departs!"

(Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson)
 

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Login to find out (January 27, 2008 at 11:24am)
peace
beautiful thanks for sharing
is this a translation of one of Rumi's - do you have any more of PLW's translations?? or links

thanks
enjoy!
 
Login to find out (January 21, 2008 at 6:10pm)
Yes, that's right. Everything else is a symbol here, except love and intellect. Think about it, was it rational for Abraham to agree being thrown in fire? Or to sacrifice his son?

Intellect could never justify that, it was the Love, which made him oblivious of the consequences and brought him to ultimate submission.

My favorite lines are

Intellect deliberates, Intellect reflects ___
and meanwhile Love evaporates into the stratosphere.

By the time Intellect finds a camel for the Hajj,
Love has climbed Mt. Sinai.
 
Login to find out (January 21, 2008 at 4:13pm)
okay. i gotta now. there cannot be too much love...a lot of love is something natural, but there can be too much of thinking and logic. it is not just "think" and i think it is about being more deeper than the literal meanings of the lines of the poem. what do you think and say about that?
 
Login to find out (January 21, 2008 at 2:30pm)
Actually its more than just "think".
 
Login to find out (January 21, 2008 at 2:29pm)
Dear one, it is a different kind of love he is talking about. You got to think deeper to understand what he is saying.

There can be too much of an intellect, but there can never be too much of Love.
 
Login to find out (January 21, 2008 at 12:50pm)
that is good. how can someone has love and intellect. too much intellect is not good as too much love is not good either. I believe there can only be love after nikkah and in marriage. that's is my two cents worth opinion though. don't have to take my word for it.