Hafiz Quotes

“Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget yourself and be!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Love is
The funeral pyre
Where I have laid my living body.

All the false notions of myself
That once caused fear, pain,

Have turned to ash
As I neared God.

What has risen
From the tangled web of thought and sinew
Now shines with jubilation
Through the eyes of angels
And screams from the guts of Infinite existence
Itself.

Love is the funeral pyre
Where the heart must lay
Its body.”
― Hafiz, The Gift

“You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You know how it goes:
at some point in your life,
you fell in love with someone
and had a glimpse of God.
Then you abandoned life and lover
and started celebrating
your love for God.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“With That Moon Language Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear.”
― Gregory Boyle

“The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You brought
me your darkness
& I loved you
with the radiant
tears of a
thousand suns.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“How can you be a lover of love
and not be a lover of God?
It is impossible.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I am a hole in the flute that the Christ's breath moves through listen to this music

I am the concert from the mouth of every creature
singing with the myriad chorus

Quote by Hafiz”
― Hafiz, The Gift

“You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“All happenings needed to be; accept that, my
dear. Ask for any forgiveness one more time
if you must,

ask for forgiveness one more time if you must,
then move on to your glory and sublime reign.”
― Hafez

“The universe has her hands busy in my mind, knitting words together to blanket your wailing heart with something intricately designed.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I keep
holding up
the mirror of the sun,
so you can see the stunning
reflections of everything
you’re becom-
ing.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“i am an
earthquake
& dance
most heavily
upon all my
faults.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“با دلارامی مرا خاطر خوش است
کز دلم یک باره برد آرام را”
― Hafez, The Divan

“A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“How is it you’re so ensconced with the darkness of earth, when I sit here like your moon gushing with the light of your infinite worth?”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“El gran poeta Hafiz dice que deberías teñir tu alfombra de oraciones con vino si tu maestro te dice que lo hagas.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Un hombre tiene que ser un Salomón antes de que su anillo mágico funcione. (Hafiz)”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“Un hombre debe ser un Salomón antes de que su anillo mágico funcione”.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“The Head Scissor and CEO of a major corporation was once asked to give a seminar on the topic of innovation to a young and thriving startup company. After looking out upon the big-eyed crowd of young and inexperienced scissors standing there on their snippers, the aged guru opened and closed with a few thoughts that made every scissor look deep within themselves. She said, “The heart asks us to make incisions by following it along the path of intuition. Otherwise, we can be certain we’re just following behind someone else’s dotted lines. Every morning when I get out of the shower and look in the mirror, I say to myself, ‘You stand tall with long legs and bright eyes, but what good are you, if you can’t stay on the cutting edge of your self?’” After receiving a thunderous applause she gave a knowing smile and made her exit.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Infinity peeks into humanity and sees itself immediately, but we pick ourselves apart ceaselessly and never see the hidden immensity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“An invisible inquisition stands armed with canons outside the house gates of every person awakening to their destiny. Yet God is a playful guard pup, a magnificent constellation with a massive pair of brass balls called the Sun and the Moon. Visibly excited and panting at the game, this gigantic guard pup wags a tail of stars back and forth then lifts his hind leg like a radiant sequoia tree uprooted from the earth. After blinding them and spraying them with bright yellow doggie urination, he towers over the marked territory of tiny toy soldier figurines, barking, panting, kicking up dust, and doing all those playful doggie things. Hosed down with blinding misfortune, and standing there dripping with dishonor, the army finally begins to discover the depths of the unbreakable bond between a person and their pup. However, at daybreak, the big-eyed and floppy-eared puppy happily scurries back through the gate slides on the loose gravel at the corner of the house, darts through the doggie door, up the stairs, and leaps into the bed of his awakening master or mistress, jumping upon them and licking them all over, with the warmth of puppy love.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny

“The work of Hafiz became known to the West largely through the passion of Goethe. His enthusiasm deeply affected Ralph Waldo Emerson, who then translated Hafiz in the nineteenth century. Emerson said of Hafiz, 'Hafiz is a poet for poets,; and Goethe remarked, 'Hafiz has no peer.'Hafiz's poems were also admired by such diverse notables as Nietzsche and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose wonderful character Sherlock Holmes quotes Hafiz; Garcia Lorca praised him, the famous composer Johannes Brahs was so touched by his verse he put several lines into compositions, and even Queen Victoria was said to have consulted the works of Hafiz in times of need. The range of Hafiz's verse in indeed stunning. He says, 'I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through--listen to this music.' In another poem Hafiz playfully sings, 'Look at the smile on the earth's lips this morning, she laid again with me last night.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“I have fallen in love with Someone
Who hides inside you.
We should talk about this problem---
Otherwise,
I will never leave you alone.”
― Daniel Ladinksy

“I have fallen in love with Someone
Who hides inside you.
We should talk about this problem---
Otherwise,
I will never leave you alone.

(Renderings of Hafiz)”
― Daniel Ladinsky, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“Your attachments! My dear,
Let's not speak of those,
For Hafiz understands the sufferings
Of your heart.
Hafiz knows
The torments and the agonies
That every mind on the way to Annihilation in the Sun
Must endure.
So at night in my prayers I often stop
And ask a thousand angels to join in
And Applaud,
And Applaud
Anything,
Anything in this world
That can bring your heart comfort!

(Renderings of Hafiz)”
― Daniel Ladinksy