Hafiz

"Love is the only reality and it is not a concept."

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

"I too have known darkness; my whole life has been darkness, and I still know it. So don't think that because I teach love, that I have never been angry."

"You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked into the sea to learn of eternity."

"The guest is inside you and also inside me."

"Hafiz is a slave to love, and love is a stranger to the world."

"The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care."

"Your heart is a living sanctuary."

"I am a hole in a flute through which Christ's breath moves."

"The body is not separate from the Divine Spirit."

"I am the hole in the flute."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"My life is a perfect theatrical production."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"Come, sit by my side and play instruments of lightness."

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

"How did you die? asked Death of the maiden. I did not die, she answered, I grew wings and flew."

"The angel of love carries my name in its bell and announces my arrival to all the glad spirits."

"There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each passing moment, and effortlessly time breaks down your inner walls to flow."

"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."

"The rose has nothing to say, but silently exhales its fragrance."

"Be a brave warrior and conquer your thoughts before they conquer you."

"Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"God can teach through silence."

"I am bent so that I might become straight."

"Your God is not in the distance."

"The moment I heard my first love story I started looking for you."

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

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

"You are a word of God. It is your task to convey divine wisdom."