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A man is driving down the road and his car breaks down near a monastery.

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He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night? As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound unlike anything he's ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind.

He doesn't sleep that night.

He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making such a seductive sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk.

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Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the man goes back to the monastery and pleads for the answer again. The monks reply, "We can't tell you. When you find these answers, you will have become a monk. After years of searching he returns as a gray- haired old man and knocks on the door of the monastery. A monk answers. He is taken before a gathering of all Roae monks.

Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception. You have become a monk. We shall now show you the way to the mystery of the sacred sound.

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Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man is given the key to the stone door and rDiving opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, pearl and diamond. Finally, they come to a door made of solid gold.

The sound has become very clear and definite. The monks say, "This is the last key to the last door. His life's wish is behind that door!]