Block What is the difference between ability and intelligence?

They are not the same, but they are always found together. One has no ability without a degree of intelligence. One is not intelligent without the ability to use it.

Ability is the application of any skill that requires intelligence to perform.

Intelligence is the mental function of the brain to make and retain abstract concepts through logical reasoning. One is intelligent to degree that one does not permit his knowledge of reality to contain logical contradictions.

Mysticism, in ALL its forms, is the enemy of logical reasoning. Therefore, mysticism is the enemy of spirituality, i.e., of the human spirit. The “human spirit” is a way of describing our rational faculty, our rational faculty, that which alone distinguishes us from the animals. Mysticism demands that our mind evade the realty of facts, thus failing to help us identify what reality is and what we ourselves actually are.

Best wishes to all for your ability to reason logically, which is an absolute prerequisite for the success and the improvement of your physical and spiritual life!