Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
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I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.
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The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
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Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
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This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
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Come Dance with Me , come dance.
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