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.
HAFEZI 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
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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 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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How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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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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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.
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