24. The Lute With a Broken String (Persian / Khayyam)

Khayyam once wrote: “I came like water, and like wind I go.”

There is a lute in Persian poems that has one broken string — and yet plays the most haunting music.

This is what the Fool Method understands:

You don’t become whole by replacing every damaged part.

Sometimes you become whole by letting the broken part sing.

It is the crack that lets the soul through.