Erin

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Our union is like this:

You feel cold so I reach for a blanket to cover
our shivering feet.

A hunger comes into your body
so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes.

You asked for a few words of comfort and guidance and
I quickly kneel by your side offering you
a whole book as a
gift.

You ache with loneliness one night so much
you weep, and I say

here is a rope, tie it around me,
Hafiz will be your
companion for
life.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ

“In times of youth, drinking is better.
With the joyful, linking is better.
The world is a mere temporal inn;
With the shipwrecked, sinking is better.”
― Hafez, The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz

“You carry/All the ingredients/To turn your life into a nightmare--/Don't mix them!”
― Hafiz