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.
HAFEZNot loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
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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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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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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
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The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
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I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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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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