Mark's good student Mary just sent me this poem, which I had not seen before. Thanks Mary!
When Things Are Heard
The ear participates and helps arrange marriages
the eye has already made love with what it sees
the eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape
the ear hears words that talk about all this.
When hearing takes place character areas change,
but when you see, inner areas change.
If all you know about the fire is what you have heard,
see if the fire will agree to cook you!
Certain energies come only when you burn
If you long for belief sit down in the fire.
When the ear receives subtly it turns into an eye,
but if sounds do not reach the ear in the chest nothing happens
By Rumi, trans: Robert Bly.
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