Hafiz

"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

"Out of a great need, we are all holding hands and climbing."

"The words of lovers sound like prose, but the words of the wise sound like music."

"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions."

"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love."

"The words I love most in life are the same now as they were when I was a child: love, connection, and home."

"I am in love with every church and mosque and temple and synagogue, and equally in love with the dissembler and the non-believer."

"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you give it is never enough."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"The gift of love is a freedom we have never known."

"Every word a thought, every thought a prayer."

"Suffer no more by judging yourself."

"The wounded is the place where the Light enters you."

"What is the difference between your experience of Existence and that of a saint? The saint has discovered that he cannot bear the Life, the Light, the Energy of the One to whom he has GIVEN EVERYTHING."

"I know the way you can get when you have lost a couple of rounds. You sit down and look at the path and walk."

"Listen to presences inside poems, let them work on you like the aromas of a human body."

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you."

"We are the mirror as well as the face in it."

"A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish the chicory of the soul."

"I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being."

"Your deepest presence is in every small contrition."

"Give your life the gift of meaning and purpose."

"Be the guest of God."

"Every object, every being is a jar full of delight."

"This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you."

"Know the true definition of yourself. That is all anyone needs to do in this world."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you."

"Dancing is the body's caravan."