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  • The intellectual is always showing off,
    the lover is always getting lost.
    The intellectual runs away.
    afraid of drowning;
    the whole business of love
    is to drown in the sea.
    Intellectuals plan their repose;
    lovers are ashamed to rest.
    The lover is always alone.
    even surrounded by people;
    like water and oil, he remains apart.
    The man who goes to the trouble
    of giving advice to a lover
    get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
    Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
    Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

    Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications