Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
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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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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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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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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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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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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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
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Light will someday split you open.
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There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
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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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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
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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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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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