Hafiz

"The intelligent heart laughs at the grave."

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

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust."

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled."

"I have become like a ship floating on the ocean of eternal love. Let it take me where it will."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

"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 war you are waging inside yourself is not easy to abandon."

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Come. Even if you have broken your vows a hundred times, come."

"Don't be cruel to yourself. Life is hard enough as it is."

"This is how I would die into the love I have for you."

"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."

"The angels will give anything to the person who can think of themselves as a dear friend to God."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

"I am here to help you wake up to the sacred world."

"Knock on the door of love with your whole being. That is all I do."

"You think because you understand one you must understand all others that it is the same. But you see, the same blow to each of us opens things very differently."

"Listen to the presences inside poems. They are not the voices of those who lived before."

"You have within you the blessing of God. Act as though it is so."

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."

"The flute of interior intimacy praise notes into the everyday."

"A master makes a great gift for a slave of love."

"To get to the other shore, you must leave this shore."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"Every moment contains an eternity."

"Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds."

"God made the world out of love, and His love is in everything."