There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less.
If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire.
--- Jalaluddin Rumi on fasting in Ramadan
"Indeed hunger is the king of medicines.
Listen, take hunger to heart.
Don’t regard it with such contempt.
Everything unsweet is made sweet by hunger.
Without hunger even delicacies have no savor." [Rumi]
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