Hafez Quotes

The tide of my love has risen so high let me flood over you.

The Only Sin I Know If someone sits with me
And we talk about the Beloved, If I cannot give his heart comfort,
If I cannot make him feel better
About himself and this world,
Then, Hafiz,
Quickly run to the mosque and pray — For you have just committed
The only sin I know.

May these poems help reveal the Truth Of God’s Divine Playfulness and Light And His Sublime Intimacy with us.

The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind’s table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting
Light.

Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision
Of your beautiful heart.

"I once asked a bird,
"How do you fly in this gravity of darkness ?"
And she replied "Love lifts me"

~ Hafiz~"

With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best

TROUBLED Troubled?
Then stay with me, for I’m not. Lonely?
A thousand naked amorous ones dwell in ancient caves
Beneath my eyelids. Riches?
Here’s a pick,
My whole body is an emerald that begs,
“Take me.” Write all that worries you on a piece of parchment;
Offer it to God.
Even from the distance of a millennium I can lean the flame in my heart
Into your life And turn
All that frightens you
Into holy
Incense
Ash.

This sky
Where we live
Is no place to lose your wings
So love, love
Love.

"Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come Dance with Me."
Come Dance."

A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.

A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvelous lute and drum.

Is not most talking
A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?

I thought we came here
To surrender in Silence,

To yield to Light and Happiness,

To Dance within,
In celebration of Love's Victory

Look at the smile on the earth’s lips this morning, she laid again with me last night.

چون جمع شد معانی گوی بیان توان زد

It is a crime to seek to raise but self,
Before all other men to praise but self,
The pupil of the eye a lesson gives,
Be all submitted to thy gaze but self.

Am Determined One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that
I did not kiss you enough.