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in every activity, which interferes with everything.
Put this intellect aside a little -- just for a little while, just for a moment. In these moments the clouds will scatter and the sun will be seen. If you cannot put this intellect aside it will go on interfering. It is in the habit of questioning. Its nature is to interfere. Its juice is in meddling.
And religion comes through the heart, those waves will be spoiled. The mind will influence them and they will be lost. Your understanding will be completely wrong.
Creating beauty with meaning is the inspiration of a poet.
A real poet, a seer, a sage, gives all his attention to meaning --
Creating beauty with meaning is the inspiration of a poet. -- the flowers of meaning that blossom in his imagination, to the fragrance of meaning.
Getting entangled in words is the art of the mere rhymester.
But one who is just rhyming verses gets entangled in words. He is not a poet. The rhyme maker just goes on joining words to words. He has no use for meaning, getting words to fit together is enough.
Intellect is a rhyme maker, a rhymester. The secret of meaning, the mystery of meaning is hidden in the heart. You will be able to listen only when you put aside the mind.
I have heard that Mulla Nasruddin went into a cloth shop and asked about a particular cloth, "Brother, what is the price of this cloth?"
The shopkeeper said, "Mulla, its five rupees per meter."
Mulla said, "Will you give it for four and a half rupees?"
The shopkeeper said, "Sir, even to take it home will cost me four and a half."
So Mulla said, "Good, that's fine. I'll just take it home."
Man goes on putting his own interpretations on things.
A patient asked a dentist, "Can you pull a tooth without pain?"
The dentist said, "Not always. Just yesterday I dislocated my wrist while twisting on someone's tooth."
The dentist has his own pain. The one who came to have a tooth pulled has other worries, his own pain.
Mulla Nasruddin was given a job somewhere. The boss said, "When you were given this job you said that you never got tired and
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