Hafez

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.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

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."

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.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

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.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

The sun will stand as your best man_x000D_ _x000D_ And whistle_x000D_ _x000D_ When you have found the courage_x000D_ _x000D_ To marry forgiveness_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ When you have found the courage_x000D_ _x000D_ to marry_x000D_ _x000D_ Love.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

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.

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.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.