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.
HAFEZThink of suffering as being washed.
More Hafez Quotes
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I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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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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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love.
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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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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.
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Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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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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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
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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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Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
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We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business – why not find a better job?
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