"You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself."
"When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy."
"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."
"Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun"
"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."
"We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy."
"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."
"It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God."
"Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life."
"An awake heart is like a sky that pours light."
"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."
"This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love."
"Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days"
"How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words."
"Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one."
"We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy."
"If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth."
"Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters."
- Hafez
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The Divan
Hafiz
Translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke
https://archive.org/details/thedivan01hafiuoft/page/i/mode/2up
http://www.dankalia.com/islam/isl415-.pdf
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Poetry of Hafiz
By Shahriar Shahriari
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Hafez
Hafez
