Intellect Vs Intelligence ( 04 may 2006 )

Intellect vs. Intelligence

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelligence comesinto being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.There is a vast distinction between intellect and intelligence. Intellect is merelythought functioning independently of emotion. When intellect, irrespective ofemotion, is trained in any particular direction, one may have great intellect, butone does not have intelligence, because in intelligence there is the inherentcapacity to feel as well as to reason; in intelligence both capacities are equallypresent, intensely and harmoniously....If you bring your emotions into business, you say, business cannot be wellmanaged or be honest. So you divide your mind into compartments: in one compartmentyou keep your religious interest, in another your emotions, in a third your businessinterest which has nothing to do with your intellectual and emotional life. Yourbusiness mind treats life merely as a means of getting money in order to live. Sothis chaotic existence, this division of your life continues.

If you really usedyour intelligence in business, that is, if your emotions and your thought wereacting harmoniously, your business might fail. It probably would. And you willprobably let it fail when you really feel the absurdity, the cruelty, and theexploitation that is involved in this way of living.Until you really approach all of life with your intelligence, instead of merely withyour intellect, no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil forbread.

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