<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460710" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0245 The Sound of The Flute</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen to the sound of this reed-flute –<br>hear what it says. First, it laments<br>its banishment; its tearing away<br>from its home, its reed-bed. And<br>this alone, tears at the yearning heart<br>of all those whose heart feels far from home.<br>Listen to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then behind its breathy air<br>is fire – the fire of love; that sound<br>which tells every love-story in the world, <br>of lovers, parted, yearning to be<br>together once more. This flute first<br>tells of separation; then of unity.<br>Listen to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not listen to this dangerous<br>flute, unless you wish to hear<br>the innermost secrets of your heart –<br>the parting and the separation, <br>the yearning, yearning, for return –<br>Dare you listen to this story of pain, of love? <br>Listen to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(freely taken from the Prologue to Book I of the Masnavi I Ma’navi<br>of Maulana Jalalu’din Muhammad Rumi, the founder Dervish)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460710" data-title="0245 The Sound of The Flute de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Listen to the sound of this reed-flute – hear what it says. First, it laments its banishment; its tearing away from its home, its reed-bed. And this alone, tears at the yearning heart of all those whose heart feels far from home. Listen to it. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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