Shams: What are you doing?

Awhadi: Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water.

Shams: Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look at the moon in the sky?

From The Tale of the Reed Pipe, by Massud Farzan.

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I replied: “You know, father, I can tell you what it is like. Once a duck egg was put under a hen to be hatched. When the egg hatched, the duckling walked along with the mother hen until they came to a pond. The duckling took a nice dip in the water. But the hen stayed on the bank and clucked.”

“Now, my dear father, after having tried the sea I find it my home. If you choose to stay on the shore, is it my fault? I am not to be blamed.”

This story was written by Shams-e Tabrizi.

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