I

ntellect is only a part of intelligence. Intelligence is a

far bigger phenomenon, it contains much more
than intellect, because life is not only intellectual,
life is intuitive, too. Intelligence contains intuition. You
will be surprised to know that many great discoveries have
been made not by intellect but by intuition. In fact, all the
great discoveries have been made by intuition.
Something far deeper exists in you. You should not forget
it. Intellect is only the periphery, the circumference, it is not
the centre of your being; the centre of your being is intuition.
The word "intuition" is worth understanding. Intellect
Higher than intellect is needs tuition, it has to be taught. Hence the schools, colleges,
intuition. Intuition universities, they all give you tuition. Intuition needs no
tuition, it is your inner world; it is something given by God as
gives some romance to
a
your life, a little poetry. gift -- you bring it with yourself.
It gives you a few When you put your intellect aside, your head aside, then
glimpses of the non- something deeper inside you starts functioning which is
incomprehensible from the periphery. Your centre starts
utilitarian, of your functioning, and your centre is always in tune with Tao. Your
being a person and not circumference is your ego, your centre is in tune with Tao.
being a thing Your centre is not yours, it is not mine; the centre is universal.
Circumferences are personal -- your circumference is your
circumference, my circumference is my
circumference -- but my centre and your centre

INTUITION
are not two things; at the centre we all meet and
are one.
That's why religion comes to realise the
oneness of existence -- because it depends on

and
intuition. Science keeps dividing, splitting. It
reaches the minutest particle, called it the electron.
The world becomes a multiplicity, it is no more a
universe. In fact, scientists should stop using the

INTELLECT
word "universe", they should start using a new
word, "multiverse". "Universe" has a religious
tone -- "universe" means one. Religion reaches to
one; that is the experience of the centre. But the
centre can function only when you move from the
circumference to the centre. It needs a quantum leap.

Osho
Tao: The Golden Gate
Vol-2 Chapter-6

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