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.
HAFEZThere is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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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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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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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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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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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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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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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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