Contemplate:
BEWILDERMENT / Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks


There are many guises for intelligence.
one part of you is gliding in a high
        windstream,
while your more ordinary notions
take little steps and peck at the
       ground.
Conventional knowledge is death to
       our souls,
and it is not really ours.
It is laid on. Yet we keep saying
that we find "rest" in these "beliefs."
 

We must become ignorant of what we have been taught and instead

         be bewildered.
Run from what is profitable
        and comfortable.
If you drink those liqueurs,
you will spill the spring water of real life.
 

Distrust anyone who praises you.
Give your investments, money, and the interest on the capital, to those who are actually destitute.
Forget safety. Live where you fear
    to live.
Destroy your reputation.
   Be notorious.

I have tried prudent planning
   long enough.
From now on, I'll be mad.

(translated by Coleman Barks) in Cosmo DooGood's Urban Almanac 2005