This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
HAFEZEveryone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
More Hafez Quotes
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.”
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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