The Limitations of the Intellect

"Go, become quit of this intellect: seek the eye appertaining to the invisible, inward eye and enjoy contemplation.
From scholastic study and this intellect comes nothing but vertigo...
Do not seek spiritual eminence from disputation; for the one who is expectant of Divine inspiration, listening is better than speaking.
The office of teaching is a sort of sensual desire...
The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him...
God drove the particular intellect from its autonomy,
Saying," Do not domineer, you are not autonomous; no, you are a pupil of the heart and predisposed to learn from it.
Go to the heart. You are a part of the heart..."
Go therefore, be silent in submission beneath the shade of the command of the Master;
Otherwise, though you are predisposed and capable, you will become deformed, boasting of your perfection.
You strive much, and at last even you yourself say in weariness that the intellect is a fetter...
In the spiritual sea, swimming is of no avail: here is no resource but the ark of Noah...
Unless you desire this incessant lying down, and rising up, and stumbling on the way, sharpen your eye with the dust on the foot of a holy man."

Rumi, (Vol. 4, 3313-3372)

Commentary: Silence is better...(?!)