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everyone is born intelligent, so that is not debarring anybody. You just have to find your intelligence -- where it is. And once you have found your intelligence you will be clear.
People are living with unclarity because they are living with wrong ideas about themselves. Somebody has told you -- a schoolmaster, a headmaster, a university -- that you are not intelligent. But their criterion is only a chosen criterion; their criterion is not applicable to all. The universities are not yet universal. They don't allow every kind of intelligence, they don't accept all manifestations of intelligence.
Once you have accepted your intelligence and you start respecting it, you will become clear; there will be no problem.
The poet feels stupid because he cannot be a good businessman. Now this creates confusion. He becomes inferior in his own eyes, disrespectful, condemning. He tries to succeed in business but he cannot. This creates great smoke around him. If he simply understands that he is a poet and he is not meant to be a businessman, and to succeed as a businessman will be a suicide to him, he has to succeed as a poet... That is his intelligence, and his intelligence has to flower in his own way. He has not to imitate anybody else. Maybe the society will not pay for it, because poetry is not needed as much as bombs are needed. Love is not needed as much as hatred is needed.
That's why in the films, on the radio, on the television, murder is allowed; it is not called obscene. But love-making is not allowed; it is called obscene. This society lives through hate not through love. If somebody is murdering, it is perfectly okay. If somebody puts a dagger into your heart and the blood rushes like a fountain, it is perfectly okay. But if somebody hugs you, kisses you, loves you, the society is afraid.
This is strange that love is obscene and murder is not, that lovers are condemned and soldiers rewarded, that war is right and love is wrong.
If you accept your intelligence, if you accept yourself, you will become clear, absolutely clear; all clouds will disappear.
And the second thing: you need absorption and tranquillity. Intelligence
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