Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
HAFEZAn awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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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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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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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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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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