Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
HAFEZPeople say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
More Hafez Quotes
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.
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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say ‘here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life’.
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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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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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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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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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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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