Saba

“Speak Hafez! On the world's page trace
Your poems' narrative;
The words your pen writes will have life
When you no longer live.”
― Hafez, The nightingales are drunk

“What is between my soul and you is between us,
What is between my heart and you is between us,
What is between said and understood is between me and you is between us,
What is between is one among two among two is one is between us,
What is between silence is loud and between loud is silent is between us,
What is between is the law of one and one of the law is love between us,
What is between us is love and what is love is in between is between us.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Indeed, even if you make God your goal, all the works you perform for his sake will be dead, and you will only spoil those works which are genuinely good. Not only will you spoil your good works, but you will also commit sins, for you will be behaving like a gardener who is supposed to plant a garden but who pulls out all the trees instead and then demands his wages. That is how you will spoil your good works. And so, if you wish to live and wish your works to live too, then you must be dead to all things and be reduced to nothing. It is a property of creatures to make one thing from another, but it is a property of God to make something from nothing. And so if God is to make something of you or in you, then you must first yourself become nothingness. Enter your own inner ground therefore and act from there, and all your works shall be living works. That is why ' the wise man' says that 'the just person lives in eternity' since it is because they are just that such a person acts, and all their works are living works.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings

“The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, and angel
Or even pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known.”
― Hafez