The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
RumiIf your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.
RumiMy soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown
Rumi