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.
HAFEZThe 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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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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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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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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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Your life within God’s arms, Your dance within God’s arms, Is already Perfect!
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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
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It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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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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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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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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