The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
HAFEZLet tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Light will someday split you open.
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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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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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We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
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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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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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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When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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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 once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
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