I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before.
HAFEZSpeak 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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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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Everyone, 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.
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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I am happy even before I have a reason.
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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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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
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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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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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How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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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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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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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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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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Come Dance with Me , come dance.
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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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