Intelligence

                          Intelligent people start thinking on their own.

                          They start becoming individuals.

                          They start having their own life, their own lifestyle,

                          Their own way of seeing, of being, of growing.

                          They are no longer part of the crowd – they cannot be.

                          They have to leave the crowd behind,

                          Only then they can grow.

                          One who becomes more intelligent,

                          More individual, more aware,

                          Will not be any longer part of the mob psychology.

                          In one sense intelligence is very soft, like a rose flower,

                          In another sense it has its own strength.

                          But that strength is subtle, not gross.

                          That strength is the strength of rebellion,

                          Of noncompromising attitude.

                          One is ready to die, one is ready to suffer,

                          But one is not ready to sell one’s soul.