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Form
1
Monotype
with Indian Ink
25
x 28cm
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Your
intelligence is always with you,
overseeing
your body, even though
you may not be aware of its work.
If
you start doing something against
your health, your intelligence
will eventually scold you.
If
it hadn’t been so lovingly close by,
and
so constantly monitoring,
how
could it rebuke you.
You
and your intelligence
are like the beauty and precision
of an astrolabe.
Together,
you calculate how near
existence is to the sun!
Your
intelligence is marvellously intimate.
Its not in front of you or behind,
or the left or the right.
Now
try, my friend, to describe how near
is the creator of your intellect!
Intellectual
searching will not find
the way to that king!
The
movement of your finger
is
not separate from your finger.
You
go to sleep, or you die,
and
there is no intelligent motion.
Then
you wake,
and
your fingers
fill with meanings.
Now
consider the jewel-lights
in
your eyes. How do they work?
This
visible universe has many weathers
and variations.
But
uncle, O uncle,
the
universe of the creation-word,
the
divine command to Be, that
universe
of qualities is beyond any pointing to.
More
intelligent than intellect,
and
more spiritual than spirit.
No
being is unconnected
to
that reality, and that connection
cannot
be said. There, there’s
no
separation and no return.
There
are guides who can show you he way.
Use
them. But they will not satisfy
your longing.
Keep
wanting that connection
with
all your pulsing energy.
The
throbbing vein
will
take you further
than
any thinking.
Muhammad
said: “Don’t theorize
about
essence!” All speculations
are just more levels of covering.
Human
beings love coverings!
They
think the designs on the curtains
are
what’s being concealed.
Observe
the wonders as they occur around you.
Don’t
claim them. Feel the artistry
moving
through, and be silent.
Or
say, “I cannot praise You
as
You should be praised.
Such
words are infinitely
beyond
my understanding.”
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