“THE SUN NEVER SAYS Even
After
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 Gift: Poems Inspired by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
After
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 Gift: Poems Inspired by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
“What is the key
To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering? Benevolent thought, sound
And movement.”
― The Gift: Poems Inspired by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering? Benevolent thought, sound
And movement.”
― The Gift: Poems Inspired by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
“I have fallen in love with Someone
Who hides inside you.
We should talk about this problem—
Otherwise,
I will never leave you alone.”
― I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
Who hides inside you.
We should talk about this problem—
Otherwise,
I will never leave you alone.”
― I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“Why does the most exquisite rose have the sharpest thorns”
― The Hafez Poems
― The Hafez Poems
“Silence A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.
A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvelous lute and drum.
Is not most talking
A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?”
― I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.
A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvelous lute and drum.
Is not most talking
A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?”
― I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
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