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A Cushion For Your Head

Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged on February 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Just sit there right now Don’t do a thing Just rest. For your separation from God, From love, Is the hardest work In this World. Let me bring you trays of food And something That you like to Drink. You can use my soft words As a cushion For your Head. ~Hafiz~ The Gift: Poems [...]

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Love Truth Joy

Posted in A Course in Miracles, Emmanuel, Hafiz, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged , on September 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Love is a commonly used word, so frequently do we hear it that it’s become both under valued and over valued.  Over valued in it’s fickleness and under valued for the unexamined depth of what it really means.  I’ve sought to discover its true meaning.  It’s been a life long question and the answers change [...]

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This Union~Hafiz & Rumi

Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged on July 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Image by Rassouli Come close to me, I will whisper in your ear Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. For there is so much More to this life Than you now understand Observe the wonders as they occur around you Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent [...]

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It Felt Love

Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image Locale How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. ~Hafiz~ The Gift: Poems by Hafiz Translations by Daniel Ladinsky

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Someone Should Start Laughing

Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone [...]

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I Have Come Into This World

Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound and it is His – the Christ’s, our Beloved’s. I have come into this world to see this: all [...]

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We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners

Posted in Hafiz, Poetry, Spirituality on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We have not come here to take prisoners, But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. We have not come into this exquisite world To hold ourselves hostage from love. Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, From anyone likely To put [...]

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So Many Gifts

Posted in Hafiz, Love, Mindfulness, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

There are so many gifts Still unopened from your birthday, There are so many hand-crafted presents That have been sent to you by God. The Beloved does not mind repeating, “Everything I have is also yours.” Please forgive Hafiz and the Friend If we break into a sweet laughter When your heart complains of being [...]

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