Hafez Quotes

What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!

For as you talk of God,
I see great parades with wildly colorful bands
Streaming from your mind and heart,
Carrying wonderful and secret messages
To every corner of this world.

He was so slim, his heart was visible

Do not judge us, you who boast your purity.
No one will indict you for the faults of others.
What is it to you whether I am virtuous or a sinner?
Busy yourself with yourself!

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.

For Hafiz reveals a God with a billion I.Q. — a God that would never cripple us with guilt or control us with fear.

At daybreak on the fortieth day, the archangel Gabriel appeared before Hafiz and told him to ask for whatever he wished. Hafiz had never seen such a glorious, radiant being as Gabriel. He found himself thinking, “If God’s messenger is so beautiful, how much more beautiful must God be!” Gazing on the unimaginable splendor of God’s angel, Hafiz forgot all about the girl, his wish, everything. He said, “I want God!

در طریقت هر چه پیش سالک آید خیر اوست

با دلارامی مرا خاطر خوش است
کز دلم یک باره برد آرام را

I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!

When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy.

Everything You Do is Sacred

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

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 can finally live
With veracity
And love.

…Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time
For you to deeply compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

At the time of Jesus, they were called Essenes or Gnostics.

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.

For we have not come here to take prisoners
Or to confine our wondrous spirits, But to experience ever and ever more deeply
Our divine courage, freedom, and
Light!