Besides all different professions and works and occupations, there remains another capacity which is neglected in youth, of cultivating the heart quality. Today every effort is made to train a youth to become intellectual, what they call learning. But there is a difference between intellect and wisdom. It is not necessarily the same. As we confuse pleasure and happiness, also we confuse clever and wise. But the clever is not necessarily wise. Wisdom is a different thing from cleverness. So intellect is different from wisdom.

Intellect is that which one learns by impressions, studies, and which one gathers in the form of knowledge of names and forms.
Wisdom is something which is gathered like the honey from the grape, like butter from milk. And therefore, wisdom is gained from within, also from without. This combination from within and without makes it wisdom.

Today there is hardly one percent among people who has cultivated this heart-quality. But that also, instinctively there is the heart quality, but every effort is made to make that quality blunted, because what is learned today is intellectual. Now I shall tell you what I mean by the heart quality.

There is intuition,
there is inspiration,
and there is revelation.

All these things come from the culture of the heart or from the heart quality. A person may be most cultivated, may have studied much, and at the same time may not be intuitive. A person may learn all the technique of music and poetry without having the heart quality.

Heart quality is something which must be developed within oneself. And when no attention is given at the time of youth to develop that particular quality, what happens when a person is grown up? He is selfish, proud, mannerless, not ready to sacrifice. This qualification it is that guards his interest the best he can. And one calls that a person of common sense, a practical man. Imagine! If everybody is a practical man of common sense, what can one expect from life except constant conflict as it is today, as we see in life.

Besides, religion, or the devotional side in nature is also dying out for the reason that people do not need religion because there is no heart quality. Even if they went to church or call at place of worship, piety is lived in intellectuality. People can only enjoy anything intellectual. If there is an explanation of mathematics, it is something wonderful; but when it comes to feel blessed, uplifted, to feel the raising of the consciousness toward the higher spheres, that they cannot, because they live in their intellect.