There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
HAFEZI once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
More Hafez Quotes
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Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
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Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!
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This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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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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I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.
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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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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.
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I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world – Something good will happen.
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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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