“What is the call, so profound in your heart, that it pulls you out of your home, making you dance like a madman, tearing apart your robe? What is the song that comes to your heart when dawn surrenders to sunset? What is the poem that makes you awake, in the scent of autumn rain? What stillness lies in these, that unveils another world?”
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