Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by Hafez
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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.
Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
What Happens
What happens when your soul
Begins to awaken
Your eyes
And your heart
And the cells of your body
To the great Journey of Love?
First there is wonderful laughter
And probably precious tears
And a hundred sweet promises
And those heroic vows
No one can ever keep.
But still God is delighted and amused
You once tried to be a saint.
What happens when your soul
Begins to awake in this world
To our deep need to love
And serve the Friend?
O the Beloved
Will send you
One of His wonderful, wild companions -
Like Hafiz.
It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again on earth -
That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,
And women and women
Who give each other
Light,
Often will get down on their knees
And while so tenderly
Holding their lover's hand,
With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,
My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;
How can I be more kind?
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.
We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.
This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before.
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.
An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.
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.
There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office
I am happy even before I have a reason.
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
“Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”
“Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth
“You owe me”
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky..”
For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.
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.
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?
If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,
If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!
Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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.
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.
I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.
For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.
Admit something.
Everyone you see, you say to them
"Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud:
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying,
With that sweet moon
Language
What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear?
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.
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.
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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.
Think of suffering as being washed.
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
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.
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 wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
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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