Reading about Rumi inspired me to get "The Music of Life" off my bookshelf and open it at random. I thought maybe another great Sufi master - Hazrat Inayat Khan - might have something worth sharing about love on this, a musician's site.

Well, I think he did!    :-D    And I'd like to share the paragraph I turned to ...

"In India there are vina players who do not need to play a symphony in order to exert an influence, in order to produce a spiritual phenomenon. They only have to take the vina in their hand and strike one note. As soon as they strike one note it penetrates through and through; in striking one or two notes they have tuned the audience. The sound works on all the nerves; it is like playing on the flute that is in every heart. Their instrument becomes simply a source, the response to which is found in the heart of every person, friend and foe alike. Let the most antagonistic person come before a real vina player and he cannot keep his antagonism. As soon as the notes have touched that person, he cannot prevent the vibrations that are created in him, he cannot help becoming a friend. Therefore in India such players are often called, instead of musicians, "vina magicians". Their music is magic."

(From "The Music of Life", Hazrat Inayat Khan, pg 136)