Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
HAFEZNot loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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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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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.
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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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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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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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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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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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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Light will someday split you open.
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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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