Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
HAFEZI Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
More Hafez Quotes
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Listen; this world is the lunatic’s sphere , Don’t always agree it’s real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.
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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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This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
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God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.”
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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.
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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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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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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I am happy even before I have a reason.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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