When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
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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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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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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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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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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When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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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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Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
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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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I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world – Something good will happen.
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Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
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I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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