Hafez
Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you. — Hafez
Category: Mystic Poetry
The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that’s why everything you do has some weird failure in it.” — Kabir, from [I talk to my inner lover] From Kabir. Translated by Robert… Continue reading
Hafez
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez
Hafez
The Sky where we live Is no place to lose your wings. So love, love, Love — Hafez
Ḥāfiẓ
The moon asked me to meet her in a field tonight. I think she has amorous ideas. — Ḥāfiẓ
Hāfez
You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to kiss the Beautiful One. You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, O my sweet, Oh my sweet, crushed angel. — Hāfez
Ḥāfiẓ
Awake, my dear. Be kind to you sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of Light and let it breathe. Ḥāfiẓ
Hāfez
Lovers Don’t tell all of their Secrets. They might Count each other’s moles That reside in the shy Regions, Then keep that tally strictly To themselves. — Hāfez
The Vale of Soul-Making 