"Is there a window from heart to heart?"

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Is there a window from heart to heart?
After all, the shaykh sees your thoughts
as if through a window.

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Guyi panhân mi zanam âtesh zaneh
nah be-qalb az qalb bâshad rawzaneh
kher az rawzan be-binad fekr-e to
del govâhi dehad az zekr-e to

--Mathnawi, II:1587-1588
Rumi: Daylight
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

The media:
http://tinyurl.com/y2ey5d

"Is there a window from heart to heart?"